On 3/7/06, Jean-frederic Clere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I am complaining the svn contains binary files that could be > "easly" rebuild... Should I propose an additional ant target to build > those components?
> Done... (for Linux for the moment), please comment Would you intend for this to be executed as part of the build - e.g. replacing the current zlib unzip step with a download and unzip step? Or as a once only pre-requisite step? I'd be a little concerned at the icu "sudo make install" step. You might be overwriting someone's existing install which they might not be expecting. My Debian install already has icu in /usr and adding different version in /usr/local is just going to lead to problems since other applications will be expecting the version in /usr but might - due to /usr/local/bin/icu-config being first in the path - get the harmony installed version. Long term, I'd like to see the dependencies use existing installed versions of packages where possible. For instance, making use of zlib that is a standard component of all major linux distributions. (I have a patch to remove zlib from the linux natives already if anyone cares. I don't think it really helps unless we also fix the windows story.) In the short term, the current setup is simple and helps control differences, which avoids confusion that may be created by picking up different versions of these dependencies. Regards, Mark. -- Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK.