[oe] meta-java: adding support for gradle build tool and gradle based recipes

[Henning Heinold]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:13:42PM +0200, Andrea Galbusera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 3. Could it be a reasonable approach to temporarily use a host build
> of gradle as a jump start for building final libs and tools? If so,
> what will be the required setup to instruct other recipes for using
> the host version of gradle. I know this is evil, but I expect more
> trouble in building gradle than gradle based recipes. Of course, this
> might be a completely wrong perception! ;-)
> 

I never used gradle so I can not help on the build system.

If there is no other way try to use binaries wrapped in tar or what
ever and just unpack them to staging.


Bye Henning