New version of the autoconf macros
Thanks to Devin Weaver <ktohg@tritarget.com>, who implemented everything which
was missing, there is now a new set of autoconf macros for Java:
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/autoconf-Java/
* no longer need a Java compiler to test the Java VM or to test if a class is
there,
* allows configure.in's author to test custom sources,
* and more.
Most Java programs are distributed as simple jars, without any easy mean to
compile them, which I regard as an obligation for a Debian package (at least
in main, see bug #49557 and the recent thread "On the use of pre-compiled
classes in packages").
Therefore, I suggest Debian Java packagers to use tools like the above macros
and mmake to allow an easy recompilation of Java programs.
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