Re: automake/514: check_JAVA files are always compiled

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:17:21PM CET:
> 
> The subject says all.  Is there any workaround?

> check_JAVA files are always compiled, not only in case of `make check'.

Quoting 'info Automake Java':
|    Any `.java' files listed in a `_JAVA' variable will be compiled with
| `JAVAC' at build time.  By default, `.java' files are not included in
| the distribution, you should use the `dist_' prefix to distribute them.
[...]
|    Currently Automake enforces the restriction that only one `_JAVA'
| primary can be used in a given `Makefile.am'.  The reason for this
| restriction is that, in general, it isn't possible to know which
| `.class' files were generated from which `.java' files, so it would be
| impossible to know which files to install where.  For instance, a
| `.java' file can define multiple classes; the resulting `.class' file
| names cannot be predicted without parsing the `.java' file.

Seems it's working as documented, no?

No, I don't know why this limitation exists, or what would be needed to
lift it.  I don't know Automake's java support very well.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf