bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-27 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:04 AM, tsuna wrote: > What would be nice would be to have the ability to recompile only the > .java that changed.  So when you edit 2/3 files, then we'd build just > that, but in one command. make can handle this pretty well. If all the source files are listed as prereq

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-18 Thread John Calcote
Jack, -Original Message- From: automake-bounces+john.calcote=gmail@gnu.org [mailto:automake-bounces+john.calcote=gmail@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Jack Kelly Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 1:34 AM To: Ralf Wildenhues Cc: 9...@debbugs.gnu.org; autom...@gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#9088: Java

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, allow me a couple of ranty comments: * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:58:01AM CEST: > I'd rather deprecate the JAVA primary, and then introduce a new `JARS' > primary, to be used e.g. as follows: First off, we've _never_ removed support for a primary, and I don't think

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-16 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 16 July 2011, tsuna wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Stefano Lattarini > wrote: > > You're right; the documentation on Java support should be definitely > > be improved (especially making better distinction between usual bytecode > > compilation with javac and "native/binary

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-15 Thread tsuna
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Jack Kelly wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM, tsuna wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Stefano Lattarini >> wrote: >>> As my java foo is pretty weak, I'm not sure how to handle jar manifests, >>> jar entry points, or other jar/javac subtleties and

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM, tsuna wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Stefano Lattarini > wrote: >> As my java foo is pretty weak, I'm not sure how to handle jar manifests, >> jar entry points, or other jar/javac subtleties and advanced features. >> Suggestions welcome. > > You can cre

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-15 Thread tsuna
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > You're right; the documentation on Java support should be definitely > be improved (especially making better distinction between usual bytecode > compilation with javac and "native/binary compilation" with gcj). I just sent a trivial pat

bug#9088: Java support

2011-07-15 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[Adding bug-automake in CC:, so that we won't forget about the issue] On Thursday 14 July 2011, tsuna wrote: > Hi all, > whether I like it or not, it so happens that I have a Java project I'm > trying to package properly, and I'm trying to use autoconf/automake > for maximum portability and ease