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Re: `make install` should install the info files in java


On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:

>   - If it's not going to be installed, then it should not be in the
>     source tree.  It is a program, like `make' or `bison' that you
>     have to download and build in order to build GCC.  If we're not

Bison isn't such a program, for GCC releases, only for snapshots/CVS.  (Of
course the release script for 3.0 will need to handle generating bison
output files and info files, but I haven't heard it suggested that bison
should become a requirement for building releases.)

If fastjar were a GNU package, then the GNU coding standards would apply:

   Likewise, if your program uses small GNU software packages like regex,
   getopt, obstack, or termcap, include them in the distribution file.
   Leaving them out would make the distribution file a little smaller at
   the expense of possible inconvenience to a user who doesn't know what
   other files to get.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk


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