ikvm and gnu classpath

[Hans de Goede]

Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking more into the problems in getting ikvm to build from source and
> it looks like it won't be as simple as I thought as it does need to
> build against the sources of gnu-classpath (which is a pain to be
> honest!) to build it's main application.
> 
> Is there a problem with a spec file pulling in the sources from another
> tarball, decompressing, moving the required files across and then
> building correctly?
> 

There are a few other cases like this in Fedora AFAIk, that is for example why 
we have a mesa-sources packages. The correct solution would be to ask the 
classpath package maintainer to add a classpath-sources packages, and then to 
builddepend classpath-sources

Regards,

Hans