After compiling jikes from ports, you will find it has no "-encoding" option. The "-encoding" option is import for java programer of non-English country. Without the "-encoding" option, the jikes compiled java program cannot show non-English strings correctly. (ex. Japanese, Chinese...blahblah) Fix: Install ports/devel/icu and do a little modify to the original configure file. Replace all "-licu-uc" with "-licuuc". Finally, run configure with CPPFLAGS="-pthread -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib".
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports->archie Over to maintainer
State Changed From-To: open->closed Jikes now utilizes the ICU library, which adds support for '-encoding'.