build process question

Thu Mar 7 18:06:00 GMT 2002

Adam Megacz wrote:
>Hey, why does the gcj configury contain a list of all the .java/.cc
>files in libgcj instead of building it on the fly with 'find'?
>
Because automake needs it that way (I think).
Even if we wern't using automake I'd argue to continue doing it with 
lists of files, since its nice sometimes to have .java files in the tree 
which don't actually get built, to stop certain files being built by 
deleting them from the list, etc.
regards
Bryce.