[m-dev.] Bootstrapping in the Java backend?

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:57:58PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > You cannot have Mercury programs in that directory.  There's no way
> > > > it could be compiled with the source distribution.  The contents of
> the
> > > util
> > > > directory are the first thing that is built (i.e. before the standard
> > > > library, which
> > > > we we would need to link any Mercury program against).
> > >
> > > I made it work by altering the way things are built in the main
> Makefile,
> > > This can still build the C programs in util before the runtime, but
> build
> > > the Mercury programs in util (just mfilterjavac) after the runtime and
> > > standard library.
> >
> >
> > Is there any reason that it can't go into a separate directory?  I don't
> > really
> > like the idea of the workflow you're getting make to do during the build
> > there -- it's kind of non-obvious.
>
> I suppose we could create a new directory called util_mercury or similar.
>

You could just call it mfilterjavac.

Can we take this to Google Talk either now or tomorrow.


Sure, I'll chat to you tomorrow.

Cheers,
Julien.
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