We are planning a complete rewrite of the Automake support for byte-compiled java:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9088> In particular, we plan to finally remove the JAVA primary and substitute in its place a new JARS primary, that will break backward-compatibility. So it's better to start deprecating the JAVA primary in the documentation right now. Note that these series is a documentation-only changes; any pre-existing use of the JAVA primary will continue to work unchanged in automake 1.11.2 (well, with a few bugs fixed in truth). Later on, in automake 1.12, any use of the JAVA primary will cause warnings in the `obsolete' category, and we will finally remove support for that primary completely in automake 1.13. Stefano Lattarini (2): docs: clearer distinction between `.java' with javac and with gcj docs: deprecate JAVA primary ChangeLog | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/automake.texi | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- 1.7.2.3
