> > I've never built LO, so I can't give a definitive answer to that. > > But JUnit is just a testing framework (it's utterly ubiquitous in > > Java development), so if you're not running unit tests for LO, it's > > unlikely to be important.
There is no test suite for LO. However I paged through most of the 23.000 lines (!) of the make comsole log this morning. I noticed many messages like: "SOMEPROGRAM threw a SOMETYPE exception, but it was already caught." I take that as a sign junit was used and working. Knowing that the java was tested gives me a little extra confidence it built correctly. > If LO is the only thing using them, yeah, probably. > > But personally, I find the idea of "installing" java libraries under > /usr a bit odd. I understand that, but that's what the book says. I don't always follow the book, but usually do with dependencies until I understand them well enough. > the Maven repos. The idea of putting them in shared locations is a bit > alien in the Java world... Coming from Sun, I'm not surprized. Never used Solaris, but I thought it's more like Unix than GNU/Linux. "Gnu's not Unix!" > there. But then, LO is a bit weird like that... All these big projects seem to be, e.g. Mozilla as well. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
