From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 13:24:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F09E37B65D for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:24:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (yogotech.nokia.com [4.22.66.156]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19236; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:24:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06348; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:24:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14994.57437.646438.335790@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:23:41 -0700 (MST) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Jason Brazile , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make bug? (dependency names with '$') In-Reply-To: References: <200102201154.MAA00515@disco.netcetera.ch> <14994.50826.777697.32696@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Disagree. If you want it to be portable, don't use a non-standard > > extension to a tool, such as jikes dependency features. > > > > We used jikes for our day-day development, but move back to using > > 'javac' for our Q/A and final builds. That way we can complain to Sun > > when things don't work. ;) > > So what's the problem? javac also automatically builds dependencies, > it's just not as good at it as jikes. Not in a way that's usable my make. Jike can be used to build external dependency files. > Also, my experience is that unless you're paying Sun significant > amounts of $$, their reaction to bug reports is to close their eyes, > hum real loud and hope they go away. True, but Sun is no different than anyone else in that regard. I have found the individual developers somewhat more easy to work with, if you can get a contact within Sun. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message