Re: Gentoo ebuild of the new SableVM SDK SVN available

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:41:52PM -0400, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-18-05 at 19:54 -0400, David B?langer wrote:
> > (Interested Gentoo users can get this ebuild: 
> > http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ebuilds/dev-java/sablevm-sdk-svn/

A new one is coming soon and will be uploaded same location.

Still two issues with SableVM SDK:

1) DESTDIR gets doubled.  gjdoc gets installed in
DESTDIR/DESTDIR/lib/sablevm.
I think the bindir, mandir etc. at the beginning of Makefile.am
 should not have the DESTDIR specified.  I view it like this:
bindir, libdir etc. - specifies the configuration directory of the
final location (for configuration/compilation).  DESTDIR is used only
when make install done and should be only for make install code (ex:
install-hook etc.).

Also, did you consider specifying bindir, libdir, etc. when make
is called recursively from the main SableVM SDK Makefile:
make bindir=$JAVA_HOME/bin ...
for such subpackage.  It might be more convenient?  But then, I
don't know, I didn't assemble the SableVM SDK.

2) cp-tools does not build.  Errors about assert() - that's a new
   feature of Java 1.5 - I think.  I used to be able to build
   cp-tools with SableVM before - snapshot from CVS 20050331.

Improvements/Future Work:
1) If antlr not found - displays SableVM SDK message suggesting
   configure option to disable gjdoc... but does not mention that
   it can be specified with --with-antlr-jar=FILE.
2) I have a patch for cp-tools that fixes a bug:
   http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/gentoo-java-experimental/dev-java/cp-tools/files/javah-patch.diff
   I will applied it later if still relevant - it has to do with
   -d and output filename argument - but don't remember exactly
   what.  I did it some time ago but I have not send it upstream yet.


David

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