libgcj/245: Some configuration/distribution issues

[Bryce McKinlay]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/245; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
To: zastai@hotmail.com
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgcj/245: Some configuration/distribution issues
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 20:26:48 +1200

 zastai@hotmail.com wrote:
 
 >  * configure should create the full java and gnu trees in
 >    the build directory; if not, build will fail if not
 >    building in the source tree.
 
 I don't understand what you mean here. What do you mean by "not building
 in the source tree"? I regularly (always, actually) build libgcj in a
 separate "build" directory from the source tree.
 
 >  * libjava includes a seriously outdated version of zip,
 >     which does not properly support LFN-based filesystems.
 >    Using a more recent version (2.3h or higher) should
 >     solve this.
 
 Thanks - I will investigate importing a newer version of zip into the
 tree.
 
 > >Fix:
 > - Have configure create the full java and gnu trees
 
 Can you explain what you mean by this?
 
 regards
 
   [ bryce ]