[fedora-java] Enhanced aot-compile script

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 11:38:36 UTC 2005


Gary Benson writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > The way this traditionally works in UNIX is by using `make'.
 > > 
 > > For example, to rebuild the mail database you simply go to /etc/mail
 > > and type
 > > 
 > >     make
 > > 
 > > which does whatever is necessary.
 > > 
 > > Why not do it this way with gcj's dependencies?  Just go into
 > > /var/lib/gcj<blah> and run make?  The makefile can then do
 > > everything that is necessary, using make's dependency analysis.
 > 
 > That's fine for sendmail, where everything in /etc/mail is owned by
 > sendmail.  GCJ can't know in advance what will be in /usr/lib/gcj, so
 > such a makefile would need to be edited or generated by something.

I don't think so.  All the makefile has to know is that the master db
depends on *.db and *.so in some directory.

Andrew.




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