Jakarta BR

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:21:05PM +0100, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:08:59PM +0100, Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, koorek wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > I don't really know nothing about this, but:
> > > > 1. jakarta-ant has some BR (that's ok)
> > > > 2. this dependecies has BR jakarta-ant
> > > > 
> > > > WTF?
> > > 
> > > jakarta sucks, that's what.
> > > 
> > > > How to build this? Sorry if this is obvious for someone who is sitting
> > > > in this, but I don't get it. It's a loop.
> > > 
> > > Build jakarta-ant with --nodeps, rebuild deps, then build jakarta-ant
> > > again. Sorry, it's not my fault that ant, to have complete functionality,
> > > needs programs that must be built with ant.
> > 
> > So let's add --with bootstrap bcond, which disables BRs needed for this
> > additional functionality, leaving BRs needed to build (minimal) ant
> > capable to build its own BRs.
> 
> I did it, but it will not resolve the issue as some of those BRs need
> ant with more than just basic functionality. Try:
> 
> ./builder --with basic_functionality jakarta-ant
> ./builder jakarta-commons-net
> 
> It won't work because jakarta-commons-net needs jakarta-ant build with
> junit support. I don't know if there is more such packages.

Hm... so multi-stage bootstrap is needed?


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