SableVM SDK - General Info and Gentoo Update

Hi,

I completed a Gentoo ebuild (package build script) that builds
everything for SDK 1.12_pre2 and everything seems to work though
not tested a lot.

ebuild: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ebuilds/dev-java/sablevm-sdk/
patches:
http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ebuilds/dev-java/sablevm-sdk/files/

Things of general interests to non-Gentoo people:

assert patch: removes assert statements allowing builds on pre-SDK-1.5.

bootstrap patch: ensure that SableVM SDK is used to build cp-tools,
gjdoc, etc. by setting JAVAC, JAR, JAVA env variables.  Ideally, we
might want to have configure options to control this.  On Gentoo
systems, JAVAC (and a few others) variable are defined to the current VM
SDK selected.  Therefore, cp-tools/gjdoc etc. are build with currently
selected system VM instead of SableVM SDK.
I think it should default to SableVM SDK unless otherwise specified with
configure flags i.e. the SableVM SDK should always bootstrap itself.
I don't think it should rely on pre-set environment variables as it
is currently the case.

chmod patch: fixes earlier bug reported.  When autoconf tools rerun and
recreate files - permissions were not always set for BUILDIR/bin.

dir patch: One way to fix DESTDIR bugs (undo Greg's Makefile.am changes
and uses config options).  An alternative way is to keep Greg's changes
and remove DESTDIR from all bindir,libdir,...


Note: fastjar will not rebuild automatically Makefile.in if Makefile.am
is built unlike all other code.  By adding the config switch:
--enable-maintainer-mode
to fastjar, it will make the build dep behaviour ok like the others.
This should not affect end users but is a little bit confusing to dev
when they patch Makefile.am and expect Makefile.in to be regenerated
like the others. :)


David

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David Bélanger
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