[fedora-java] Self Introduction - Bob Deblier

[Bob Deblier]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 07:51 -0500, Jeff Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:34:49 +0100, Bob Deblier <bob.deblier at telenet.be> wrote:
> > My tentative approach is using autoconf to figure out if either gcj/gcjh
> > or javac/javah is available, generate a build.xml file for Apache Ant. I
> > have this working for Sun's JDK. Support for gcj should be easier once
> > libgcj contains javax.crypto - is this planned for 4.0?
> 
> Bob, why would you using autoconf to detect the correct libs, progs,
> and setup your makefiles only to generate a build.xml and invoke
> ant?  To me it seems like you are introducting additional complexity
> and dependencies but I may be wrong.

I started with generating build.xml to fill in the proper 'src' and
'build' directory properties; the next step was trying to detect which
programs are available to build the jar.

Bob