Re: jikes and dependencies with javac

[Christopher Cobb <ccobb@cseg.com>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> Two queries:
>
> I just installed jikes. It doesn't work; it can't find any files
> in /usr/share/java/repository/lang (which doesn't exist; only
> the repository does). Question -- which package do I need to
> install to fix this, and why doesn't jikes depend on it?
>
> Second question: I'm using jdk1.1.7 and having problems with
> dependencies with javac. It looks a lot smarter than it really is!
> It seems that if I have three files, class1.java which uses class2.java
> which uses class3.java, and I "javac class1.java", it compiles all 3.
>
> If I then change class3.java, and re-run "javac class1.java",
> it doesn't rebuild class3. Is there a fix to this?

jikes +F class1.java

cc