address@hidden: Re: [GNU Crypto] new make plumbing]

[Casey Marshall]

Forgot to CC: the list (its bedtime).

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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:31:12 -0700
From: Casey Marshall <address@hidden>
To: "Raif S. Naffah" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [GNU Crypto] new make plumbing
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:54:28PM +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:

> hello Casey,
> 
> in the old days, i used to do the following for building a 
> non-gcj-friendly distro:
> 
> address@hidden gnu-crypto]$ cd ../../build-no-gcj
> address@hidden build-no-gcj]$ rm -rf *
> address@hidden build-no-gcj]$ ../../workspace/cvs/gnu-crypto/init.sh
> address@hidden build-no-gcj]$ ./configure --with-jikes
> address@hidden build-no-gcj]$ make
> 
> how can i have the same with the new mechanism?  doing
> 

You should set your CLASSPATH environment variable to reflect your
system. The new Makefiles rely on environment variables, making them
much more flexible.

With the old way it is not buildable, for example, with IBM's JDK, since
it relys on a `rt.jar' file being the core class jar (it isn't always).
Since it can be difficult to determine an appropriate CLASSPATH
programmatically, I thought having a (rather simple) extra step would be
an ok price for flexibility.

A CLASSPATH of ${JRE_HOME}/jre/lib/{core,rt}.jar:. should suffice; maybe
it would be a good addition to set a default CLASSPATH if it hasn't been
explicitly set?

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