Re: [aspectj-dev] Packaging AspectJ 1.5.3 for Gentoo Linux

["Jean-Noël Rivasseau" <elvanor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh - I received this mail while writing the previous mail. Ignore then - thanks.

On 7/10/07, adrian.colyer@xxxxxxxxx <adrian.colyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The *source* for our modified version of BCEL is available - it's in
the bcel-builder module together with an ant script to build and
package it.

Regards, Adrian.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:14:15PM +0200, Holger Hoffst?tte wrote:
> Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
> > I am trying to build AspectJ from source as I want to package it for
> > Gentoo. The Gentoo packaging philosophy is that everyhting must be built
> > from source, and dependencies should be taken from the system.
>
> As fellow Gentoo user I approve! :)
>
> > I checked out AspectJ 1.5.3 source from the Eclipse.org
> > <http://eclipse.org/ > CVS server. So far so good. But my first problem
> > is that I noticed that the AspectJ distribution ships a .jar of Apache
> > BCEL, required for building. This JAR file differs from the vanilla JAR
> > file that we produce under Gentoo, because the hierarchy in the bundled
> > jar is org.aspectj.apache.* whereas in the vanilla distribution it's
> > apache.org.*
> >
> > So the compilation fails. Did you actually modified the BCEL jar? And why??
>
> Stock BCEL was unloved for a very long time and the AJ team found many
> bugs that required patches. There were some discussions about moving to
> ASM and/or possibly merging the changes back to BCEL upstream but I don't
> know what happened to that. So it seems you will have to package the
> patched aj-bcel jar.
>
> regards,
> Holger
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