suggestion and offer: langtools in build

[Jonathan Gibbons]

OK, I'll add the code to langtools; you can utilize it in the build when 
you have time.

-- Jon

On 01/23/2013 05:48 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> Sounds like a swell idea to me.
>
> -kto
>
> On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>
>> OK, I realize you guys are really busy right now, so you may want to save this for a bit later ...
>>
>> It bugs me that the new build creates lots of jar files for langtools, that only differ in the main program.
>>
>>   updating 1739 files
>>   updating 1739 files
>>   updating 1739 files
>> Modifying langtools/dist/lib/classes.jar
>>   updating 1749 files
>>
>> How about changing it so that we create a single jar file (classes.jar) that contains a "build-time only" main program which is a wrapper for all the necessary tools, such that the first arg identifies the tool.
>>
>> Thus the downstream use is simply to replace
>>
>>     BOOTJAVAHOME/bin/java -jar javac.jar args
>>
>> with
>>
>>     BOOTJAVAHOME/bin/java -jar classes.jar javac args
>>
>> If you (build-infra guys) are interested, I'll provide the main program to go in the langtools repo. This would be for the build only -- there is no suggestion to put it in any external product.
>>
>> -- Jon