Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Re: java autoconf macros

[Mark H. <mh...@ca...>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:58:14PM +0100, Luca De Rugeriis wrote:
> > I have just discovered that gcj is now a requirement to build java-gnome.
> > I do not believe this is a good thing.  This requirement and the requirement
> > of autoconf 2.58 will mean that many developers will not be able to download
> > and build the bindings without the headache of first building the tools.
> > I think gcj build should be optional.  If the developer does use this
> > option then we could build the native versions of the jar files as well.
> > What do you think?
> - gcj optional, it should build native jars too
I will try to make the changes to allow this.

> - use autoconf < 2.58
I'm not sure how to do this. People were reporting problems with
autoconf 2.57 -- I'm not sure what they were, or what caused them. My
suspicion is that our aclocal.m4 has problems in it - unfortunately I
don't know how to change it. 
This is not such a big problem as it looks. build/maketarballs.sh runs
autoconf in the right directories as it builds the tarballs - so tarball
users won't need autoconf at all.

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