RE: [java-gnome-hackers] Misc things

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

> I've the vte bindings ready to be commited. Although they need much 
> more work, they are fully usable now.

good work!

> Before I commit the code I want to modify the build.xml and the make 
> stuff so the bindings can be compiled correctly. I've already added 
> things to the build.xml to compile the vte java classes. The new 
> targets are build-vte and vte-jar. I also fixed some build.xml bugs 
> which prevented ant from behaving properly. The java code was always 
> compiled because ant searched the compiled classes in the wrong 
> directory. The java classes were up to date, but ant compiled 
> again al 
> the code because it couldn't find the already compiled ones.

thanks.

> I'm now trying to fix the configure and make stuff, getting 
> it ready to 
> compile the vte part, but It's difficult for me. What do you think 
> about making the build process for the native things independent from 
> the java sources build process ? I mean, using make to build with gcc 
> and after that, calling ant manually to build the java code. 
> IMHO this 
> would make the scripts easier and smaller and we could use the ant 
> properties in the command line to switch between jikes, modern or gcj.
> 
> I need a piece of advice.

I personally would like to keep the two together if it isn't too much
work.  Most people in the open source world are use to the 
configure; make; make install approach to development.  What type of
problems are you running into?

-Jeff