RE: [java-gnome-hackers] [Help] Autoconf developer wanted

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

Please post it.  I am already tired of trying to chase
down build related issues.

> does anyone have thoughts about this? can I send it?
> 
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:07:45PM +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If nobody disagrees, I would like to senf this to -developer and
> > hopefully Jeff will also consider adding it as a job request on
> > sourceforge.
> > 
> > Hello,
> >   
> > The Java-Gnome project produces a set of bindings of the core Gnome
> > developer platform for the Java language. We have recently 
> joined the
> > official Gnome Bindings Release and as part of this have 
> made a large
> > overhaul of our repository structure and build system. We 
> have a working
> > build system but none of us are experts or even experienced 
> in the GNU
> > autoconf/make tools so there are a few areas where we could do with
> > help.
> > 
> > Our current build process:
> > >From our repository, we release an all-in-one tarball, plus several
> > separate tarballs (one for each module). Each tarball has it's own
> > configure script and make files. Since these have many sections in
> > common, we generate the actual Makefile.in and configure.in 
> files from
> > shared files and *.in.in files using a very simple perl script.
> > 
> > The makefiles themselves then compile java-gnome, which involves
> > compiling java source files to java bytecode and native 
> code (with gcj),
> > compiling c source files (jni files) and also packaging 
> everything into
> > a jar file and shared libraries. This part of the build 
> process works
> > well.
> > 
> > What we want help with:
> > (in decreasing order of priority)
> > 
> > Modifying the configure script so that any java compiler 
> can be used. At
> > the moment, we default to javac and allow kaffe with a 
> configure time
> > option. GNU autoconf-archive has a macro which is supposed 
> to do this,
> > but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work (it wasn't setting the
> > JAVA_CFLAGS variable).  Instead, we're using a macro which is very
> > inflexible and looks like it is a hack of a hack.
> > 
> > For the separate module tarballs, e.g. libgnome-java, we 
> need to locate
> > libraries which would have been produced by the other 
> tarballs, such as
> > libgtk2.5-java.so. At the moment, these are hand coded to 
> the default
> > installation locations. It would be good if this could be 
> configurable.
> > 
> > It would be helpful if we had more parts of the process 
> configurable.
> > For example, if we could say configure --nodocs so that 
> documentation
> > does not get generated.
> > 
> > In general, having somebody who knows what they're doing 
> look over our
> > build system and suggesting any improvements which could be 
> made would
> > be very reassuring
> > 
> > 
> > If you have experience with the standard GNU tools, we 
> really would like
> > to hear from you. Any help you may offer would be very much 
> appreciated.
> > A little knowledge of java would be helpful but is in no 
> way necessary.
> > We will be able to give lots of help if you need it.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >   .''`. Mark Howard
> >  : :' :
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> > 
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> -- 
>   .''`. Mark Howard
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