Bug#292577: attempt manual compilation

[David N. Welton]

Barry Hawkins <barry@alltc.com> writes:

> David N. Welton wrote:
> [...]
> | @ashland [~/workshop/hecl] $ ant -verbose -Dbuild.compiler=gcj compileCore

> Another useful technique with this sort of thing is to try and
> manually execute the compilation task outside of Ant, perhaps also
> with gcj's verbose setting turned on.

Originally, when I couldn't get Ant to work with Hecl, and didn't know
it well anyway, I just forgot about it and wrote a Makefile.  Someone
has contributed an Ant build now that works with Sun's java.  In any
case, I know the files are building ok, so that's not the problem.

Perhaps it merits its own bug report, or just to be forwarded
upstream, but ant ought to give a little bit more detail, even without
-verbose, if it can't find the compiler it expects to find.

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