[GNU Crypto] Re: FYI. was: new make plumbing

[Raif S. Naffah]

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 06:40 am, Casey Marshall wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:26:26AM +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> > hello all,
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 06:27 pm, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 01:54 am, Casey Marshall wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > I'm not sure what you mean, but `bootclasspath' is meaningless
> > > > in general. Other VMs don't support things like
> > > > -Xbootclasspath.
> > >
> > > but they have some equivalent form; e.g. kissme.  have you tried
> > > using kissme as the VM with this new build?
> >
> > i checked in new versions of Makefile.am and Makefile.in under
> > source (toplevel), and tried building the library (no-gcj-friendly)
> > version with the new make mechanism and here are the results of my
> > attempts:
> >
> > [...]
>
> I just checked in makefiles in jce/ and security/, which makes the
> CLASSPATH variable static for the makefile (that is, if you want to
> change CLASSPATH, you have to reconfigure). Also, configure assumes a
> CLASSPATH of '.' if the environment variable is unset.
>
> Thus we have the situation that CLASSPATH, w/r/t configure, just sets
> the class path to be used for compiling classes. It won't affect
> `check' (which JAVAFLAGS takes care of better), and doesn't
> necessarily affect your execution environment.

yup.  i think this way is better than the old one.  i'll just add some 
documentation on how to use it with different free compilers and VMs.  
if people try other combinations i'd appreciate it if they can post to 
the list so we can add a step-by-step to our documentation.

thanks Casey for your efforts + cheers;
rsn
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