[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38532] make dist without java produces incomplete source distribution

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #38532 (project octave):

I'm pretty sure that the different compilers produce different bytecode when
fed a longish source code file.

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I didn't know that. Do you know that there are "bad" Java compilers that we
can't rely on to compile the Octave classes correctly? Are those being checked
for in configure as well or should they be?

Also this implies that we should treat javac like bison, if it's not present
it will trigger a warning that certain files may not be built but an end-user
should still be able to compile from the distributed tarball, right?

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