Re: [Cp-tools-discuss] build

[nferrier]

Brian Jones <address@hidden> writes:

> If you could integrate automakejar features into automake in a 
> compatible way I think this would be a good thing.  It is automake 
> that creates these complicated install/uninstall/dist kinds of targets 
> from simple Makefile.am files.  

Absolutely. And it's very good.


>So let automake do this and don't 
> bother the human with these and let your addition add to or extend the 
> crappy _JAVA support in automake already. 

I don't know anything about the crappy _JAVA support in automake.


Here's a bit more doc about automakejar:

Automake and automakejar have fundamentally different
viewpoints. Because java dependancy tracking is impossible automakejar
frigs it by mangling source file names into class file names.

When you deal with jar files you're (conceptually) doing 

   JARFILE:  source files

so the fact that automakejar is pretending it knows what's going on
doesn't really matter.

This is where integration with automake might be possible, if automake
had a JAVAJARFILE target that tool the parameters that an automakejar
target takes we would be laughing.

I'll have a look at some point to see if that could easily be added to
automake.


Note that automakejar might still be useful for projects that don't
use the autotools (it's a lot more portable than they are).


Nic