Re: [Sablevm-developer] Short release status - almost there...

[Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...>]

W li=B6cie z nie, 15-02-2004, godz. 12:58, Chris Pickett pisze:=20
> Etienne Gagnon wrote:
> > Another thing:  I do really think that "./configure ; make ; make ins=
tall"
> > should work out-of-the-box for sablevm-x.y.z.tar.gz and for
> > sablevm-classpath-x.y.z.tar.gz.  Currently, it is broken for
> > sablevm-classpath (as you need to pass specific configure options to =
get
> > a sablevm usable build).  Assume that the typical user WILL NOT read =
the
> > README file nor the INSTALL files and will simply go ahead and type t=
he
> > standard commands above.  [Alternatively, you could make sure that
> > "./configure" fails for sablevm-classpath, and issues a message invit=
ing
> > the user to read the README and INSTALL files...]
> >=20
> > The worst situation is if a user does the standard commands, gets no =
build
> > error message, yet gets "could not start vm" when trying to run Hello=
World.
> >=20
> > What do you think?
>=20
> I think adjusting classpath's configure.ac to recognize our options as=20
> defaults should not be too hard (including --enable-gtk-peer=3Dno as de=
fault).

No GTK? Why?! IMO this one surely should be "yes" by default.

OTOH I'd love to have some not-too-big AWT app with which I could
test this feature (not gnome-java). Any suggestions?

> On the other hand, it is also not too hard to include David's=20
> build_sablevm-classpath script.

I think adjusting configure would be better percieved by the users, as
./configure [ --prefix=3D... ]; make ; make install
is what works for 90% of the free software.

					GBP

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Grzegorz B. Prokopski <ga...@de...>
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