CVS kaffe (robilad): updated docs for compiler detection code
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PatchSet 7613 Date: 2007/12/21 00:56:00 Author: robilad Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: updated docs for compiler detection code 2007-12-20 Dalibor Topic <[email protected]> * README: Refer to FAQ/FAQ.requiredlibraries for required libs. Describe passing a compiler for the Java programming language to the configure script. Reported by: Kiyo Inaba <[email protected]> Members: ChangeLog:1.5111->1.5112 README:1.47->1.48 Index: kaffe/ChangeLog diff -u kaffe/ChangeLog:1.5111 kaffe/ChangeLog:1.5112 --- kaffe/ChangeLog:1.5111 Fri Dec 21 00:47:46 2007 +++ kaffe/ChangeLog Fri Dec 21 00:56:00 2007 @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ 2007-12-20 Dalibor Topic <[email protected]> + * README: Refer to FAQ/FAQ.requiredlibraries for required libs. + Describe passing a compiler for the Java programming language to the + configure script. + + Reported by: Kiyo Inaba <[email protected]> + +2007-12-20 Dalibor Topic <[email protected]> + * FAQ/FAQ.requiredlibraries: Added GNU Classpath and boehm-gc descriptions. 2007-12-19 Dalibor Topic <[email protected]> Index: kaffe/README diff -u kaffe/README:1.47 kaffe/README:1.48 --- kaffe/README:1.47 Wed Oct 24 20:43:23 2007 +++ kaffe/README Fri Dec 21 00:56:01 2007 @@ -113,12 +113,10 @@ What software do I need to install Kaffe? ----------------------------------------- -Kaffe uses GNU Classpath as its class library. You need to install it first. -GNU Classpath can be found at: +See FAQ/FAQ.requiredlibraries. - http://www.classpath.org - -Kaffe requires GNU Classpath 0.95 or later. +You'll also need a compiler for the Java programming language, like ecj, +javac or jikes. How do I compile and install kaffe? ----------------------------------- @@ -128,6 +126,12 @@ $ ./configure $ make $ make install + +You can specify which compiler for the Java programming langiage to +use for the build by passing it in the JAVAC variable to the configure +script, as in + +$ ./configure JAVAC=/usr/bin/ecj Before compiling for your platform, you might want to check the RELEASE-NOTES file to see if it has been tested with this release, and