Greetings - I've been working for the past couple weeks on trying to integrate a project written in Java, Python, and Jython with automake. The Python and Jython parts actually work fairly well, since I just call distutils from "install-data-local:" rules to handle building and installation for those parts.
The Java part has been difficult, but not impossible, thanks to the docs, mailing lists, and java.apache.org. Now, though, I am starting to run into some apparently nasty issues, so I wanted to find out a little more about this territory. First, what is the state of Java support in automake ? On my machine (an IBM laptop ; I use the Debian automake-1.7 package), java_JAVA does not include Java source files in the distribution, which breaks "make distcheck" (I use a Java source file for AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR ... but clearly the source files are needed for byte-compilation as well). This doesn't seem like desirable behavior, but I am not sure how well Java is supposed to be supported. Should I file a bug for this ? Second, I worked around the first problem by including "EXTRA_DIST = $(java_JAVA)" in my Makefile.am's. But then "make distcheck" breaks because it tries to install the class files, which I try to prevent by explicitly moving them elsewhere in my "all-local:" rule. (This is also because the Sun JDK javac is dumb and does not automatically create directories specified in -d, so I need do it manually. Yuck. But that's a different story.) Regardless of where the class files end up being built, I do not want them to be installed ; instead, I want just one jar file installed, so I put some rules for a jar file in my top-level "install-data-local:" target. Is there any way I can specify that the Java class files should not be installed ? I tried using noinst_java_JAVA, noinst_data_JAVA, etc., to list the Java sources, but automake complains that the respective dirs are not defined. My current workaround for this involves listing the Java sources as noinst_DATA, and then manually byte-compiling them in "all-local:". Yuck. Again, I suspect this might be a lack of support for Java, but if not I will file a bug report for you. Any help, advice, suggestions, etc. are much appreciated. I am even willing to try to hack on automake to help add Java support, though my knowledge of Perl is minimal. Anyway, thanks ! leif -- (( Leif Morgan Johnson . http://ambient.2y.net/leif/ ) ( IAESTE trainee . http://www.iaeste.org/ ) ( Salomon Automation . http://www.salomon.at/ ))
