Hi! On Mit, 17 Okt 2001 Brian Jones wrote: > I'm seeking suggestions or ideas from individuals about how they would > like to be able to build Classpath. I guess two cases exist, building > >from CVS and building from a release. I'll start the discussion with my > suggestions but I'm hoping for others and some concensus at the end. > > Like other GNU projects, I would like to continue to use the > automake/autoconf system for driving the compilation of Classpath.
I'm not sure if I understand all your arguments for this, but I can tell you that moving from make to Ant was a huge step forward for the ArgoUML project (to which I'm contributing a bit). I don't think anyone wants to go back to the old make tools. > For releases I'd like to continue to distribute compiled .class files > and generated JNI headers. If you need libs like GTK, I'd rather like to see a distribution with automatic dependency checking, like a rpm file (I'm using RedHat Linux) or so. > I want CVS builds to generate JNI headers > and .class files relying only on free software. There exists a need > within our community to generate .class files without compiling native > libraries and I'd like that to be easier... it seems to me that to be > successful this must be faster than 'jikes -d /tmp `find java gnu > vm/reference -regex ".*\.java$"` or some working equivalent. I guess jakarta-ant is the answer to this problem... http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ I thought someone is already working on a build.xml file? Ciao, Andreas _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
