[m-rev.] For review: Have configure decide whether to install the Java grade

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, James Goddard wrote:

> > Also is configure checking for different java compilers,
> > e.g. jikes, gcj or just javac at the moment?
>
> At the moment, we're just checking for javac, although I imagine it wouldn't be
> too difficult to check for those others.  I think that in a couple of places
> javac and jar are called explicitly (such as the library Makefile) so those
> cases should be hunted down and generalized.  Should I go ahead and do that, or
> just leave an XXX comment for now?
>

Unless there is an explicit reason for having them hard-coded it would
probably better to find them and replace them with $(JAVAC) and $(JAR)
respectively (and have the values of these variables set in the
appropriate place).  The only reason I asked was because java compilers
occasionally have different names and, presumably, implmentations of
jar could be called something else as well.

Julien.
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