Re: javac issues

[Vaclav Barta]

Steven Knight wrote:
> > > One approach that has been suggested would extend cons to
> > > scan the output of the Java -depend -verbose command to
> > Yeah, I wanted to ask about that: which "Java" (sic) is that?
> > Sun JVMs don't recognize "-depend" option (I don't remember
> > the exact version I have at work; "java" from 
> > Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS here doesn't know about it either).
> That's a cut-and-paste from a very old post on the mailing list
> (the first one that discusses trying to compile Java with Cons):
>         http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/cons-discuss/1998-October/000363.html
> There's a follow-up from Jochen Schwarze that forms the basis
> for the FAQ discussion of Java.
> I myself know only enough about Java to be very, very dangerous,
> so I welcome any corrections you may have about the FAQ writeup.
IMHO the follow-up is fine but the original post is wrong,
or at least obsolete. I'm not really a Java expert either - I
can't rule out that previous versions of Java (say, before inner
classes were added to the language) used to have a "-depend"
option, but it's not there now. I'd say if nobody on this list
knows about a JVM with "-depend" option, drop that sentence
talking about it from the FAQ.

        Bye
                Vasek