The Leopard has No Jikes!

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I was doing my first building of java code on Leopard today and realized that jikes, the fast, Java compiler is missing. I'm guessing that with Java 1.5 as the default, and jikes not supporting 1.5 or later, at least not yet, they decided that they didn't need it.

I mean it makes sense, but it also means that all my Makefiles are going to have to change. Not the worst thing in the world, but a little disappointing as I've been using jikes since it was off IBM's alphaWorks site and I've built it on a ton of machines. Just a bit nostalgic.