Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Fri Nov 22 15:52:29 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Dave Pointon
<dpointo8 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>wrote:

>
> Much as though I like and indeed applaud, this change, on a more general
> note, it surprises me that more use isn't made of the power of perl since
> it [perl] is a fundamental part of autotools and thus has to be present
> on the system when configure is run.
>

autotools do not need to be present on the system when configure is run;
only sh.



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