>>>>> "Raif" == Raif S Naffah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Raif> what safe assumptions can we make for non-Eclipse users; e.g. a Debian 
Raif> packager who requires the sources as well to patch them when addressing 
Raif> security issues (see mail in 
Raif> http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/2006-July/001136.html)?

I don't think there is a problem here.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding
though...

The Classpath javah depends on having an ASM jar file around, both at
build time and at runtime.  (I neglected the runtime part in the
wrapper script in yesterday's patch -- I fixed it here.)

By default Classpath simply won't build javah.  If you specify
--with-asm, it will.  So all Debian has to do is package ASM and make
it a build dependency of Classpath.  This introduces a package cycle,
but distros already have to deal with those all the time...

The Eclipse-based build is different, I think.  It is for developers
really; I doubt any distro would (or could) use that.

Tom

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