[fedora-java] Enhanced aot-compile script

[Gary Benson]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.

How would it cope with file deletions?  If we uninstall a rpm then its
entries should be removed from the master database.

Cheers,
Gary