FYI: The Jacks Java Compiler Testsuite Finds a New Home

[Andreas Tobler]

Ranjit Mathew wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   Thanks to Tom Tromey and Mark Wielaard, the excellent
> Jacks Java compiler testsuite has found a new home in
> Mauve:
> 
>   http://www-124.ibm.com/pipermail/jacks/2004-October/000921.html
> 
> The development on Jacks had stalled for a long
> time and it crucially lacked tests for the new features
> introduced in JDK 1.5.
> 
> With the inclusion of Jacks, Mauve:
> 
>   http://sources.redhat.com/mauve/
> 
> now becomes a comprehensive collection of Free tests
> for Free Java compiler and runtime implementations.
> Awesome!
> 
> Can someone please update:
> 
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/install/test.html#TOC2
> 
> and also the description of Mauve on its home page? (It
> no longer tests only the class libraries.)

Just a little hint, if you intend to check out jacks, do it outside of 
the gcc tree. Then you can copy it to testsuite/libjava.jacks.
This copy you can cvs update.
If you initially co the jacks (maybe the mauve too?) module inside the 
gcc tree, the next contrib/gcc_update of gcc fails saying that jacks is 
not a module of gcc.

Happened to me yesterday :)

Andreas