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


Mark>   - If it's going to be installed, it should be called `jar'.  I agree
Mark>     with Per that `fastjar' is analagous to `make'.  I'm assuming
Mark>     that the command-line options are similar to the same utility
Mark>     from other vendors.

I think this is a choice that the fastjar maintainer should make, not
one that we should make.

Mark>   - If it's not going to be installed, then it should not be in the
Mark>     source tree.  It is a program, like `make' or `bison' that you
Mark>     have to download and build in order to build GCC.  If we're not
Mark>     installing it, then `configure' should just look for `jar'.  If
Mark>     it finds it, good; otherwise, it should say "Can't build GCJ; 
Mark>     you must install jar".

I think this will make it less likely that people will build the Java
compiler.  However, if the choice is between this and installing
fastjar, then I'm for this.  Installing fastjar implies that we
support it in some way.  But we don't, and I don't think we want to.

Tom


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