Re: Build and install without compiling java files?

[Michael Koch]

Am Montag, 29. November 2004 08:30 schrieb Grzegorz B. Prokopski:
> On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 14:52, Michael Koch wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 19:35 schrieb Archie Cobbs:
> > > Michael Koch wrote:
> > > >>Assuming that this glibj.zip has the default
> > > >> Configuration.java and that is acceptable to the builder,
> > > >> why not provide a way to configure the build so you can just
> > > >> install glibj.zip as shipped?
> > > >
> > > > I think shipping a glibj.zip is not good. This should be
> > > > removed from source tarball.
> > >
> > > Just curious.. why do you say that?
> >
> > I think there is no real need for it. It just bloats the source
> > tarball. All sources are included inside to tarball to build it.
>
> I agree.
>
> As you've just said this is a *source* tarball.  A .zip file
> containing .class files definitely does not count as a source. 
> Altough this way of distributing is popular in java world, I think
> it'd be much nicer to simply have separate *binary* distribution of
> the glibj.zip.
>
> glibj-0.12.zip anyone?

And what defaults will you use in gnu.classpath.Configuration ? Some 
stuff is optimized by the compiler based on constants in this class 
during build time. E.g. when Cconfiguration.DEBUG is false all code 
using

if (Configuration.DEBUG) ...

is optimized away. for DEBUG thats not really critical but what about 
INIT_LOAD_LIBRARY. JNI libraries are loaded based on this. When this 
is false the loading code is optimized away.


Michael
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