[GTG] Re: [ITP] jikes -- IBM's Fast Java compiler adhering to language and VM specifications

["Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> Jari Aalto writes:

    > Current classpath won't compile with gcj (gcc 3.x included in Cygwin),
    > so it requires jikes. Here it goes. Included in major distros:

    >   http://www.sourceforge.net/project/jikes

    >   http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/jikes
    >   http://archive.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/pool/main/j/jikes/
    >   http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/index_all.html

    > Jari

    > sdesc: "Fast Java compiler adhering to language and VM specifications"
    > ldesc: "IBM's Java compiler (now Open Source) that translates Java
    > source files as defined in The Java Language Specification
    > (Addison-Wesley, 1996) into the bytecoded instruction set and binary
    > format defined in The Java Virtual Machine Specification
    > (Addison-Wesley, 1996). Unlike other compilers, Jikes accepts the Java
    > language only as specified: not as a subset, variant, or superset."
    > category: Devel
    > requires: cygwin

    > 1)

    >   wget         \
    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/jikes/setup.hint \
    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/jikes/jikes-1.22-1.tar.bz2 \
    >     http://cygwin.cante.net/jikes/jikes-1.22-1-src.tar.bz2

Builds fine from source and packaging looks good. GTG:

Ciao
  Volker