Fw: Building 0.8.4 From Source?

[Mark S. Miller]

At 10:26 PM 8/28/99 , Paul Snively wrote:
 >The subject line says it all. I've downloaded the source code, and it seems
 >to rely on:
 >
 >a) A variant of "make" other than GNU make, and


I'm using the "make" that comes with the Cygnus environment, which I believe
is supposed to be exactly GNU make, and compatible with GNU make on other
platforms.  I'm running on Win98, btw.

 >b) Symantec's Visual Cafe compiler etc.

Oops, my mistake.  In e/src/jsrc/Makefile you should change the line

         COMPILE=$(WCOMPILE)
to
         COMPILE=$(JCOMPILE)

the first setting does invoke the Symantec compiler, but the second invokes
the Javasoft compiler (or any other with a compatible command line).  Please
let us know how well that works under Linux.

Any Java IDE should be able to suck in the entire directory tree rooted in
e/src/jsrc and compile it.  I wouldn't be surprised if that's how most
people build E.

 >Has anyone successfully built 0.8.4 under Linux-GNU (e.g. Red Hat 6.0)
 >using Blackdown's JDK 1.1.7, and if so, how?

MarcS?  You've been building & running under Linux, what's the deal?


         Cheers,
         --MarkM