Re: [0.98 merge] FYI: More build fixes

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2008/9/8 David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>:
> > Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > >        * scripts/makemake.tcl: Switch
> > >        gnu.java.math to BC compilation.
> > Can you explain why this was necessary?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David Daney
>
> Without this, the build fails as there is no CNI implementation of the
> GMP support.
> Thus, I switched them to bc as is done with the Classpath Gtk+, Qt,
> gconf, gstreamer, etc. peers.
> If there is a preferable way of doing this, then I'll switch to this
> but this was the most obvious method
> given how the other peers are handled.

It is unfortunate that the only way to get -fjni is to force the package 
to be bc.

We could augment makemake.tcl so that there was a 'jni' specification 
that did jni but not bc.  FWIW, that would be my preference.  But I am 
not a maintainer...


David Daney