keywords: symlinks jikes compiler compile ibm
text: Jikes and the Open Source Process \\Jikes is a great compiler but they could really benefit from better project\management.\\This bug  has been open for greater than 3 years now with no resolution.  One\of the developers sent me a *private* email (without commenting or closing the\bug) this this could be fixed by avoiding the use of symlinks but wasn't sure.\Of course this email was sent more than 2 years ago so I have no decent way of\finding it.\\Adding insult to injury is the fact that IBM won't let me comment on the bug\without an account.  The only problem is that my account won't activate.\\In a nutshell if you want to use incremental compile with jikes you need to\specify relative paths not full paths.\\For example if y ...\\