I do not see the point in supporting compiled Java in Automake. The
whole point of Java was that it can run in a VM. GNU support for
compiled Java seems to have faltered. Although much useful work was
done, people just did not start using compiled Java. The free
software world seems to have adopted OpenJDK
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK, http://openjdk.java.net/) and
this is not even likely supported by Automake.
As someone who attempted to completely support Automake's Java tests,
compiling everything from scratch (including the compiler), I can
attest that it is a major PITA. I did mostly succeed but there was a
Java runtime extracted from Eclipse that I never did get working
correctly given that there was no useful documentation for how to make
it work.
Please note that I am not a Java developer.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
