[fedora-java] Moving aot-compile-rpm and rebuild-gcj-db out of java-gcj-compat

[Gary Benson]

David Walluck wrote:
> Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > A comment in aot-compile-rpm raises the possibility of including
> > this script in RPM itself.  Gary, do you think this is feasible in
> > the FC5 time frame?
> 
> Gary has already gotten a portion of this process into rpm, only
> it's not being used by default. If we're going to put it in, we also
> need the logic to (easily) enable it in the macros file for a
> particular distribution, or better, from a particular .spec.
> 
> I am disappointed that no one was interested in a discussion of
> moving the natifying outside of the specific rpm, but I have just
> given up on this idea. I certainly don't have the time or desire to
> implement it myself.

Having natifying outside of specific rpms was my original intention:

  https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2005-July/000507.html

Indeed, aot-compile-rpm was specifically designed to be used in the
same way as brp-python-bytecompile, though the --exclude option that
everyone loves except me has broken this somewhat.

The problem with this is as I outlined in the above email, in that
there are five things that need to happen for transparent native
compilation, of which aot-compile-rpm is just one step (and the
simplest at that).  The two most tricky steps (adding %post/%postun
scripts, and adding dependencies for same) were the ones I really
wanted to automate, but Jeff Johnson's solutions were basically "do
it manually".

Cheers,
Gary