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


Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> I think we shouldn't because I don't want to support it.  Most GNU users
> will get programs via some packaging system anyway.  They can easily
> install fastjar themselves if they need it.

At least some of us don't, mostly because we have to support the same
software across multiple platforms, many of which don't have pre-packaged
GNU software and where regardless it's easier to just build it ourselves
than to try to force the various vendor-specific packaging formats to put
the software into a shared file system.

Anyway, if fastjar is going to be a separately-installed prerequisite, one
of the implications is that building the components in gcc that require it
should really be flexible about what version one has installed.  It makes
life really difficult for people like me who have to build lots of
software on multiple platforms when in order to upgrade a core package
like gcc I have to build an increasing number of other packages first.

(At least gcc isn't likely to get as bad as ImageMagick is in that
respect.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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