Re: Classpath Merge (1/3): libgcj-import-20100921

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

On 28.09.2010 23:23, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Attached is a merge of GNU Classpath into trunk from the tag
> libgcj-import-20100921.  This tag was created against revisions as of
> 2010-06-01 to avoid the whitespace changes on the 3rd.  My intention
> is to post separate whitespace fixes for gcj and then a second merge
> containing changes after this change to Classpath.  This merge however
> contains most of the changes that have lingered in Classpath for a
> long time since the merge for 4.4.
>
> This took longer than expected, mainly due to the presence of
> generated autotools files in the gcj tree which require regeneration
> with specific versions.  gcj seems to have decided to use libtool
> 2.2.7a, which doesn't exist as a release on
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/ and I ran into conflicts with macros
> from the GNU Classpath import which used the system 2.2.10 install.
> In the end, the solution was to remove the Classpath copy from the m4
> directory, which caused the 2.2.7a macros in
> the top-level config directory to be used.

CCing Ralf for the auto*/libtool stuff. Maybe it's worth documenting the missing 
libtool bits/versions in libjava/HACKING?

> The merge has been tested with both java-maintainer mode and
> non-java-maintainer mode builds, and the Classpath changes have been
> committed to the classpath tree.

I assume that the correct ecj.jar from sourceware.org:/pub/java was used to 
generate the class files.

The generated auto* files are usually not included in the diff for the review.

> Ok for trunk?

Looks okay to me, but I cannot approve it.

   Matthias