RFR: JDK-8141444 Clean up building of JDK launchers

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Nov 5 10:39:51 UTC 2015



On 05/11/2015 09:41, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>
> If you need to do jigsaw changes, sure, just do what's needed. 
> However, it sounds like you still need a main class, but in addition 
> you also need a module. If that's the case, it seems that you could 
> keep the MAIN_CLASS and just add a MODULE. In fact, I believe the the 
> module the launcher belongs to should be available as $(MODULE), so it 
> can probably be picked up automatically by SetupBuildLauncher.
If we have $(MODULE) in SetupBuildLauncher then this could be nice as it 
would allow us to most of the changes to the Launcher- make files.

-Alan.



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