Gary Benson writes: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > The way this traditionally works in UNIX is by using `make'. > > > > For example, to rebuild the mail database you simply go to /etc/mail > > and type > > > > make > > > > which does whatever is necessary. > > > > Why not do it this way with gcj's dependencies? Just go into > > /var/lib/gcj<blah> and run make? The makefile can then do > > everything that is necessary, using make's dependency analysis. > > That's fine for sendmail, where everything in /etc/mail is owned by > sendmail. GCJ can't know in advance what will be in /usr/lib/gcj, so > such a makefile would need to be edited or generated by something. I don't think so. All the makefile has to know is that the master db depends on *.db and *.so in some directory. Andrew.
