JI-9008287 - configure should provide better error reports about bootjvm binaries

[Dave Pointon]

Hi Magnus ,

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 12:15 +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
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> 
> I have a hard time believing it is a common problem that a JDK 
> installation exists, where the executable permission is missing. So it's 
> reasonable to have this as a last time check, and not as part of the 
> already complext BOOTJDK_DO_CHECK logic.
> 
> /Magnus
> 

I don't disagree - with the benefit of hindsight + invaluable insight
provided by the group, I think that  I am reading far too much into the
problem I encountered whilst building, or attempting to build, the IBM
variant of the JDK whilst following the same process as the build team -
which involves the use of a sandbox IBM bootjvm that does not contain
any file having executable permissions - updated webrev to follow ...

Rgds ,
-- 
Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS

Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work
before we count the cost and before we we judge rightly
of our strength to go thro' with it - Robinson Crusoe