[PLUG] pdftk gcj dependencies (was: Re: Banning package(es) for good in Debian and Ubuntu)
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Oct 29 18:54:57 UTC 2008
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Rogan Creswick wrote:
> The Makefile.Generic delegates to Makefile.Base, which in turn delegates
> to java_libs/Makefile, and that invokes a makefile in each java package,
> using ${GCJ} (which is defined in Makefile.Generic).
Oh. I've not looked at it for years. I just build new versions when I
upgrade the system and use it.
> By Java standards, this is an extremely odd way to structure a project,
> and it's quite unfortunate that gcj is so tightly coupled with the build
> process. I would like to use pdftk, but I am not about to put up with gcj
> for one application.
I'm sorry it's giving you such a hard time. I've not seen any issues with
gcj, but I've not explicitly used it for anything.
Rich
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