libjava build failure with read-only source tree

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 29.09.11 at 10:39, Bryce McKinlay <bmckinlay@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> 
>> As this isn't the first time I encounter this in the libjava subtree, can it
>> be made a requirement for testing changes that they must work with
>> fully read-only source trees? And/or if there's some sort of automatic
>> testing in place, could that be adjusted to include a respective check?
> 
> It would be heavy-handed to require every contributor to test patches
> with a read-only tree. We don't want to make the patch submission
> process any more onerous than it already is.

I certainly realize that. But this wouldn't be needed for all submissions,
just such that alter the tree layout of the build tree.

Btw., the patch that I had embedded in the original mail works, but as
there's no maintainer listed for libjava in ./MAINTAINERS I'm entirely
unclear who I would need to turn to in order to get approval to commit
this.

Jan