groan: installation

Mon Nov 4 15:32:00 GMT 2002

Hi,
On Mon, 2002年11月04日 at 09:08, Per Bothner wrote:
> Ant has one very major flaw from the point of GCJ:
> It is implemented in Java. Requiring a working implementation
> of Java before you can build GCJ would complicate things. It is
> not a fundamental problem GNU Java is written in Java. But that
> does make building it more difficult. I don't think any
> potential benefits of Ant are likely to compensate for that.
> (Of course someone could re-implement Ant in C.)

Maybe not what you are looking for. And I have never used it. But I
cannot help myself, so I must give you this probably useless trivia:
DotGNU Portable.NET http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html
contains a C port of NAnt (which is based on Ant, but written in C#)
http://nant.sourceforge.net/
Which can be found at
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/dotgnu-pnet/pnet/csant/csant.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
 This program is similar in behaviour to "NAnt"
 (nant.sourceforge.net), except that it is written in C instead of
 C#. This makes it a little less flexible in some ways.

 A core tenet of the Portable.NET design philosophy is that it must
 be self-bootstrapping. That is, the build must not rely upon any
 "magic binaries" that must be built with other tools prior to
 building Portable.NET. The only "magic" that we permit is the
 C compiler.

 "NAnt" is not self-bootstrapping. It must be built against the C#
 system library, but that library itself is built using something
 like "NAnt". This creates a "magic binary" dependency.

 Hence, we have provided this C version to bootstrap the compilation
 of the C# system library. Application programmers can then build
 and use "NAnt" to achieve as much flexibility as they desire.
Cheers,
Mark