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From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@cortexebusiness.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Jikes magic property for +M arg
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 00:09:18 +1000
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Did you try it? It will examine the dependencies and remove the class files
which are out of date triggering their recompilation. I'm curious though
about javac doing something Jikes doesn't. Can you describe in more detail
how Jikes is failing to do what you expect.

Conor

----- Original Message -----
From: "KapilSingh Pawar" <KapilSinghP@PLANETASIA.COM>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:51 PM
Subject: RE: Jikes magic property for +M arg


>
> i checked up <depend> task, but still could not figure out how it solves
the
> problem that i have quoted.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:conor@cortexebusiness.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:30 PM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Jikes magic property for +M arg
>
>
> From: "KapilSingh Pawar" <KapilSinghP@PLANETASIA.COM>
> To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:11 PM
> Subject: Jikes magic property for +M arg
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there a magic property for the +M argument of Jikes compiler?
> >
> > My requirement is to compiler all .java files in a folder using ant.
> There
> > is some interdependecy among these for compilation say b.java depends
on
> > d.java which in turn depends on a.java and all these files are present
in
> > one folder.
> >
> > If I use build.compiler=classic the interdependency of these files is
> > automatically sorted but not with build.compiler=jikes.
> >
> > Is their a solution for this?
>
> try the <depend> task. It will do things even Jikes won't in terms of
> finding dependencies.
>
> Conor
>
>