Katana (was: rawhide report: 20040622 changes)

[Gary Benson]

Brian Millett wrote:
> Sorry for being out of the loop, but what is the package katana?

So up until now, the gcj-compiled Java stuff in Fedora were based on
RHUG packages (http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/) which used an
autotools system in place of the packages' upstream build scripts.
This methodology was very maintainance heavy but was used because Ant
did not work well under libgcj.

Now that Ant works under libgcj we can build the jarfiles using the
packages' upstream build system and then compile the jarfiles to
native code using gcj.  Katana is a bunch of scripts to automate the
latter.

Gary