Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 14:22:59 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Makefiles again Message-ID: <199712132222.OAA03373@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <3492B9DA.82120B91@fsl.noaa.gov> from Sean Kelly at "Dec 13, 97 09:37:46 am"
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Sean Kelly writes:
> Java heads, and especially Archie:
>
> Recently, Archie Cobbs of Whistle posted his BSD-styled
> whistle.java.mk which could be the starting point for a future
> bsd.java.mk. I've been working on it a bit by adding support for RMI
> and JAR files, but I'm starting to think it isn't the right way to go.
>
> Java is a cross-platform language. Instead of developing BSD-specific
> make definitions, maybe it'd be better to do something that's also
> cross-platform: GNU make, for example.
>
> I realize that you can build on BSD and just distribute your
> classes/jars to anyone at that point, but it'd be really nice to build
> anywhere and distribute to anyone. I encountered this myself when
> doing some compiler performance comparisons with Microsoft's
> command-line JVC. I had GNU make on the Windows host, but naturally,
> the Makefiles didn't work since they relied on BSD make.
This argument makes sense to me.. especially since adding "gmake" to
a FreeBSD system is very easy (it exists as a port and package) and
in general it's pretty widely available.
[ Hmm... I wonder if it's possible to write a makefile that works with
both "make" and "gmake" ?? Does their syntax overlap sufficiently
to check if ${MAKE} != "gmake" then gmake... ? Separate question.. ]
To prove you're serious, convert the existing makefiles and
I'll put them up on the FTP site :-)
-Archie
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