Jikes
Building Jikes RVM has been quite a headache to date. The instructions provided here are by no means a comprehensive guide to building Jikes, but rather a minimal starting point to establish a common basis for development and related correspondence. This guide is woefully incomplete for the time being, and will be updated over the course of a carefully arranged test build resulting in a fully configured build server.
At the moment, successful builds have only been documented under very specific conditions grouped here by the following categories:
- Build Platform
- Required Packages
- Shell Configuration
- System Configuration
Build Platform
At the time of this writing the RVM has only been successfully built under ITTC's standard install of Fedora 8 on the IA32 platform. Others should be possible, but have not been tested.
Required Packages
In addition to the base packages, the following have been necessary:
Shell Configuration
Environment variables are absolutely critical to a successful build. The following example entered directly in a (bash) login shell should produce a successful build, though other configurations will also work:
export JAVA_HOME=/tools/java/i686/jdk1.5.0_14/
export CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib:$CLASSPATH
export BIN=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
ant -Dhost.name=ia32-linux -Dconfig.name=production
Please note that it is entirely safe (recommended, even) to repeat the entire sequence for every build when in doubt.
System Configuration
Perhaps the worst part of the default Jikes automated build script is that it appears to have outdated file mirrors hard-coded into the dependency fetching routines. This can presently only be remedied via a nasty hack of /etc/hosts; alternatives are still being sought.