bug#9088: Java, JARS primary?

2013-05-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 05/12/2013 06:29 AM, Michael Zucchi wrote: Hi again, I (mostly) just have an observation to add to the bug tracker discussion on the dependency generation. Using $? will not suffice as a dependency check, as it's trivially easy to create an example which will compile ok after a change

bug#9088: Java, JARS primary?

2013-05-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: On 05/12/2013 06:29 AM, Michael Zucchi wrote: Hi again, I (mostly) just have an observation to add to the bug tracker discussion on the dependency generation. Using $? will not suffice as a dependency check, as it's trivially easy to

Re: install-strip variant that strips then installs?

2013-05-12 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Rhys Ulerich rhys.uler...@gmail.com wrote: I gather that 'make install-strip' installs and then strips binaries. Is there some variant that reverses the order? If not, any recommendations for how to write one in an Automake-compliant manner? My unstripped

Re: bug#9088: Java, JARS primary?

2013-05-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 05/12/2013 06:29 AM, Michael Zucchi wrote: Hi again, I (mostly) just have an observation to add to the bug tracker discussion on the dependency generation. Using $? will not suffice as a dependency check, as it's trivially easy to create an example which will compile ok after a change

Re: bug#9088: Java, JARS primary?

2013-05-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: On 05/12/2013 06:29 AM, Michael Zucchi wrote: Hi again, I (mostly) just have an observation to add to the bug tracker discussion on the dependency generation. Using $? will not suffice as a dependency check, as it's trivially easy to

Re: install-strip variant that strips then installs?

2013-05-12 Thread Peter Johansson
On 05/08/2013 02:12 AM, Rhys Ulerich wrote: I gather that 'make install-strip' installs and then strips binaries. Is there some variant that reverses the order? If not, any recommendations for how to write one in an Automake-compliant manner? Hi Rhys, I'm tempted to believe the DESTDIR

Re: bug#9088: Java, JARS primary?

2013-05-12 Thread Michael Zucchi
On 13/05/13 02:28, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 05/12/2013 06:29 AM, Michael Zucchi wrote: Using $? will not suffice as a dependency check, as it's trivially easy to create an example which will compile ok after a change but create a broken jar. e.g. add a new abstract method to an abstract