help building custom libgcj

Thu Jul 15 14:51:00 GMT 2004

>> Ok, I thought this was easy, but I didn't succeed doing it. I tried 
>> changing "awt_java_source_files" in both Makefile.am and Makefile.in 
>> to contain only "java/awt/AWTPermission.java".
>> However, this didn't work - got some errors trying to compile 
>> natEmbeddedWindow.cc: gnu/java/awt/peer/EmbeddedWindow.h: No such file 
>> or directory.
> Looks like you need to remove natEmbeddedWindow.cc from nat_source_files 
> as well.
That's what Michael Koch and I concluded, as well. Don't know what it 
is, though...
>> Thinking it all over again, I reckon this is certainly not the way to 
>> do it: The Makefile.in should be created automatically from 
>> Makefile.am with automake. However, trying this with automake 1.8.3 
>> (and no options?), resulted in a Makefile.in being 6 mb. in size, 
>> compared to the old being of order 100 kb.
> Yeah, unfortunately you currently need to use a special version of 
> automake to rebuild the libjava Makefile.in: 
> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/java/automake-gcj-1.4.tar.gz
Yep - Michael referred to this, too. So I've fetched it, and it works 
better than the other automake :-)
> It might be easier just to hack the Makefile.in directly for now.
Naaah, I don't think so - then I'd have to maintain two files, and the 
dependency section in the .in-file. :o)
It's still compiling - I'll inform you how it goes... (o:
// Martin