JRE file layout for 1.0.7?

Gwenole Beauchesne gbeauchesne at mandrakesoft.com
Sat Mar 30 13:00:20 PST 2002


Hi,

>  But I would like to change the way the the files are installed when doing
>  "make install".  Instead of installing it by default in /usr/local/bin,
>  /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, etc., I'd like to have the default
>  install put everything in /usr/local/kaffe, in a JRE-style layout.

Exactly, thank you. And like Sun's JRE, please put Kaffe arch dependent 
libraries in kaffe/<Khost_cpu>/. ;-)

>  Is anybody opposed to this?

Not at all. Also please make sure that the nativedir macro is DESTDIR-aware.

> It'll also impact the Debian and RPM packages.

I don't think so thanks to the overrideable DESTDIR macro and, currently, 
overrriding nativedir as well.

Bye,
Gwenole.


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