groan: installation

Mon Nov 4 12:05:00 GMT 2002

velco@merlin.maxx.bg wrote:
>>>>>>"Cedric" == Cedric Berger <cedric@wireless-networks.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cedric> Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> >>>>>>> 
> >>
> Per> Ant may make sense for RHUG, which is a set of Java
> Per> applications tweaked/tested/ported to GCJ, and RHUG should
> Per> probably include Ant.
> >> Last time I looked, ant used com.sun.* and couldn't be
> >> compiled with gcj :-(
> >> 
> Cedric> That was probably for invoking the "javac" compiler,
> Cedric> right? In that case, it should probably be changed to
> Cedric> either invoke the external gcj binary (since gcj has a
> Cedric> faster startup time than javac) or the appropriate gnu
> Cedric> class that invoke the compiler. Cedric
>>Excuse me, but I apparently missed it ...
>Yes, apparently. start here: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html
Hint: you're a poor developper with Windows2K and javac. Where is the 
Make command?
>What problem ant is supposed to solve that make cannot ?
>And what problem Java is supposed to solve that C++ cannot?
Cedric