Gary Benson writes:
Andrew Haley wrote:
> The way this traditionally works in UNIX is by using `make'.
>
> For example, to rebuild the mail database you simply go to /etc/mail
> and type
>
> make
>
> which does whatever is necessary.
>
> Why not do it this way with gcj's dependencies? Just go into
> /var/lib/gcj<blah> and run make? The makefile can then do
> everything that is necessary, using make's dependency analysis.
That's fine for sendmail, where everything in /etc/mail is owned by
sendmail. GCJ can't know in advance what will be in /usr/lib/gcj, so
such a makefile would need to be edited or generated by something.
I don't think so. All the makefile has to know is that the master db
depends on *.db and *.so in some directory.
Andrew.