[Cp-tools-discuss] Re: Automakejar - make install

[Nic Ferrier]

Julian Scheid <address@hidden> writes:

> Got a problem. Both the LibxmlJ and Gjdoc build process will require
> you to explicitly add gnujaxp.jar to the CLASSPATH before you run
> ./configure, because (AFAICT) GNU JAXP's Makefile doesn't have an
> "install" target, and therefore there is no default location where my
> build files could check for the jar file.
> 
> This is sad, because all other prerequisites - like gcj, libxml2,
> libxslt - can be found automatically. In other words, this shortcoming
> in the (otherwise great!) GNU JAXP package will prevent people from
> doing the ./configure && make no-brainer in Gjdoc.
> 
> Therefore, I'd like to suggest adding an "install" target to the
> Makefile produced by automakejar which install's the jar file to
> $PREFIX/share/. This is the default location where the usual Java
> macros for automake copy the jar files to.

Sure. It's an oversight that there is no install target.

I'll look at this at the w/e.



Nic