Re: classpath-config script.

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 17:12, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> I am porting the FLEX compiler infrastructure (http://flexc.lcs.mit.edu)
> to work with GNU classpath, and noticed that classpath was missing
> a <foo>-config script (similar to the gtk-config script) that would tell
> you where the various libraries have been placed after installation.
> So I wrote one; the patch is appended.  This way other applications
> can use commands such as:
>   java -bootclasspath `classpath-config --classpath` ...
> instead of trying to figure out manually where glibj.zip has hidden itself
> on this particular platform.

Very nice. Thanks. Do you have a copyright assignment on file with the
FSF? If not Brian can send it to you if you want.

>  Also 'classpath-config --version' will
> report the version number of classpath, which is handy for VMs which would
> like to keep up with the changing VM interface of classpath.  [And on that
> note, it would be handy if the version number of the copy from CVS were
> changed to something other than 0.04 to account for the change in the
> Runtime.execInternal contract.]

Brian, is it OK to set the VERSION in configure.in to something like
"0.05-pre-cvs" or should this always be a dotted number?

Cheers,

Mark