groan: installation

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Mon Nov 4 05:53:00 GMT 2002


Adam Megacz writes:
 > 
 > Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
 > > That's what I was going to look at. It seems that GCJ does an awful
 > > lot which is not make-aware.
 > 
 > IMHO GCJ should be using ant for build management.

Having spent a fair bit of time using Ant, I could not disagree more
strongly.  Besides, it would introduce a dependency on Java while
building gcj, and there is no way that we're going to depend on unfree
software if we can avoid it.

Andrew.



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