ikvm and prepackaged libs

[Andrew Haley]

Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>> Getting ikvm to build is proving to be a hideous problem.
>>>
>>> 1. classpath needs to be rebuilt
>>
>> I don't get it.  Building classpath requires java-devel, which is a
>> standard part of Fedora.  
> 
> Yep - I know that. ikvm builds classpath for itself. That really isn't a
> problem, the tarball can be extracted within the ikvm directories and
> the script fiddled with. It does add almost 10Mb to the src.rpm size

Ok.

>>> 2. ecj needs to be built with ikvm
>> Err, why?  ecj is also a standard prt of Fedora.
> 
> To build part of ikvm, ecj is rebuilt by ikvm which means another
> package being brought in to build a 80k dll!

OK, so what are you complaining about?  What is this hideous problem?
Doesn't seem there is any problem at all.

Andrew.