Re: [cp-patches] Patch: FYI: set encoding for classpath sources

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jeroen" == Jeroen Frijters <address@hidden> writes:

Jeroen> I personally don't use the Classpath build infrastructure, so I don't
Jeroen> mind the option being in there (although it would be nice not to set it
Jeroen> when running on Windows), but since I have no way of specifying UTF-8
Jeroen> encoding I'd rather stick to ASCII (if the various compilers support
Jeroen> enforcing that).

I think the problem is that without '-encoding' there is no way to
enforce this constraint, as compilers tend to use the locale's
encoding.

I suppose we could add a configure check to see if jikes supports
'-encoding'.  Does your 'jikes -help' show '-encoding'?

Tom