Re: stuff for hhh

> >  The Makefiles have the required patches *built in*
> > (using <<EOF).

> Thats fine for small patches, but it falls apart when you have to patch
> an autoconf script (which we do in mips2java for newlib and xwt for the
> boehm-gc patch).

I agree -- there is *nothing* wrong with the patches as separate files.  
It's better that way anyway, IMO.  Much cleaner.

> > I'd like to avoid the .configure_* / .download_* / .install_* stuff
> > (and the corresponding mips2java tasks/*)

> That certainly is ugly. I don't really see how we can avoid it though.
> What if gcc blows up halfway though the compile? You need some way to
> record that the build actually did complete.

Again, I *like* how this is.  Yeah it is a little ugly but it works 
amazingly well.  It's certainly not ugly enough to have to try and rip out.

Regards,
Andrew