Re: Cinco de Mayo

[John Leuner]

> > I quickly tried to compile kissme and classpath, my notes are
> > attached. This is not meant to be quite such a manual process, we
> > are in the middle of fixing the build scripts.
> 
> I didn't find any notes attached.

They should give an option in mailers to cleverly search the text and determine 
when someone has forgotten to actually do the attachment.
  
> > Could we add an option to 'make install' which would copy all .class
> > files to a $prefix/share/classpath/classes directory?
> 
> Someone mentioned doing this recently, it is easy and I planned to add
> it myself before the release.

Excellent.

> > <new topic>
> > 
> > It's wonderful that classpath can compile itself without requiring
> > any VM files. Am I correct in saying that classpath depends only on
> > the auto* programs, gcc, jikes and zip?
> 
> auto*, libtool, gcc, jikes or gcj 3.1), zip is optional

Great
 
> > I want to build a debian package when the new release comes
> > out. Prior to this I always built a package with kissme-specific VM
> > files, now I can remove this dependency (and effort).

Is there anyone who builds RPMs, has anyone built a classpath RPM?

John Leuner

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