Review Request: 8004803: build-infra: Cannot use icedtea as boot for closed build.

[David Holmes]

On 13/12/2012 2:35 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 08:27 AM, Kelly Ohair wrote:
>> >On 2012-12-12 02:56, David Holmes wrote:
>>> >>Note that we went from -Xbootclasspath to just -bootclasspath. The
>>> former is a VM option and the latter a javac option.
>>> >>
>
> Huh? -Xbootclasspath and -bootclasspth are both JVM and javac options.

I stand half corrected. The java launcher only accepts -Xbootclasspath 
while the javac launcher will accept both (though I believe they have 
different meanings).

However in this case we were not invoking the javac launcher but the 
java launcher with the javac jar file. In that context does "javac" 
still accept -Xbootclasspath, or is that only accepted by the javac 
launcher?

To restate what I said more precisely:

Note that we went from passing -Xbootclasspath to the java launcher, to 
passing -bootclasspath to the javac application.

Cheers,
David
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> -- Jon