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Re: groan: installation
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Megacz <gcj@lists.megacz.com> writes:
Adam> Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
>> But requiring Ant to build GCJ does not seem to make sense, I
>> think.
Adam> Make is written in C. =)
Adam> Actually, this raises an interesting point: how do you
Adam> bootstrap gcc on a system without make or a C compiler?
Adam> Make requires [g]cc, and gcc requires make!
With a shell and a cross compiler.
>> Perhaps when Ant can handle all the functionality of autoconf
>> and automake as well, and I hear more reports about people
>> using it for complex non-Javat projects, then perhaps it might
>> be worth considering
Adam> I think the biggest reason people get frustrated with ant is
Adam> because it doesn't ship with the <sh> task, so you can't use
You mean there's more besides the baroque syntax ?
~velco