Re: [Java-gnome-developer] how do the makefiles work?

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

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:29:16PM +0100, Nicolas Mommaerts wrote:
> Ok, I thought ./genMakefile.in was executed somewhere during the build.
> 
> I'm a Java developer, I know *nothing* about Makefiles, autoconfig or
> build's on Linux in general. But I do want to have 0.8.2 working on my
> system that's why I'm making those patches (and learning about it in the
> process), so my patches are probably the most un-elegant solutions you
> can imagine.

I'm sure they'll be useful. We have already made quite a lot of
improvements to the build system in cvs. Jeff has been spending today
making sure the 0.8 branch has all of these and works correctly -
hopefully 0.8.3 will be a big improvement on 0.8.2

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