[pypy-dev] System calls in Java

[Niko Matsakis]

> I noticed that your recent changes have broken the translation of  
> pypy-jvm on tuatara, because now pypy-jvm requires jna, and it's not  
> installed there.
>
> I tried to download jna from the web but I failed to understand what  
> package(s) I need; do I need only jna.jar and/or the platform  
> specific jar?
>
> I wonder whether it might make sense to include the .jar directly in  
> our svn repo, to drop the external dependency on jna and simplify  
> the life of those that want to build pypy-jvm by themselves.

So, you only need jna.jar.  I think it probably makes sense to put it  
in the repository.


Niko