[kaffe] Sun's javac and compiling rt.jar without debugging symbols

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Hi Mark,

Mark and Janice Juszczec wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I made kaffe-1.1.0 for i386.
> 
> Now I'm making kaffe-1.1.0 for mipsel (still playing with that Helio)

that's good to hear.

> Per the FAQ.embedded, I do:

> export -n JAVA
> export -n JAVAC
> export -n CLASSPATH
> export JAVAC="/usr/java/jdk1.3.1_08/bin/javac -g:none"

looks like we need to fix FAQ.embedded ;)
export JAVAC="/usr/java/jdk1.3.1_08/bin/javac"
is the one you need, flags are set separately.

And then ./configure --with-jikes=$JAVAC

> make Klasses
make JAVAC_FLAGS="-g:none -bootclasspath lib/ "
results in a nice 300k smaller rt.jar for me, with javac from 1.3.1

> I get a bunch of errors (41 to be exact) like:

the errors come from javac trying to load core system classes from its 
bootclasspath, i.e. Sun's implementation and the internals of the 
implementation are different (no surprise here, kaffe is a clean-room 
effort). In order to fix it, you need to supply it with a bootclasspath 
that points to the classes being compiled. Just take a look at the 
JAVAC_FLAGS above.

cheers,
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