Re: jhbuild and classpath

[James Henstridge]

On 5/04/2004 6:22 AM, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> I've been experimenting with using jhbuild for GNU Classpath
> development.  My compliments on jhbuild; it's a very nice tool!
>  
Cool.  I put a fair bit of work into making jhbuild usable outside of 
Gnome (primarily for some of the freedesktop.org projects such as the X 
server), so it'll be good if it benefits you too.

If you use a URL for the module set in ~/.jhbuildrc, jhbuild should 
download and cache the module information from

> Our AWT implementation relies on GTK, so jhbuild is a natural fit for
> us.  And it looks like jhbuild has the potential to make bootstrapping a
> Classpath-based development environment dramatically simpler.
>
> I've run into one problem though.  In the GNU Classpath world, we prefer
> to have builddir != srcdir, whereas it seems most GNOME modules, and
> hence jhbuild, assume builddir == srcdir.  What do you think about
> having a builddir != srcdir mode that could be set in .jhbuildrc?
>  
Shouldn't be too difficult to implement.  What layout do you use for 
your source/build trees in this setup?

James.

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