Qn WRT PACKAGES and FEATURES

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Tue Sep 9 11:55:32 UTC 2014


On 2014-09-08 10:11, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>
> On 2014-09-08 03:45, David Holmes wrote:
>> On 6/09/2014 11:20 PM, pointo1d wrote:
>>> Hi all ,
>>>
>>> Whilst perusing the output from the command $ bash configure --help, in
>>> connection with enabling/disabling parts of the build, I notice the use
>>> of the terms FEATURE and PACKAGE but with little further information -
>>
>> Aren't they "legacy" configure terminology?
>>
> I think so too. The help output from configure has a portion added by 
> autoconf, which is very general to configure scripts and may not apply 
> completely to the configure script in OpenJDK.

Indeed they are, and they are unfortunately not possible to modify. :-(

/Magnus



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