RFR: 8352044: Add --with-import-jvms to configure

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:31:27 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> And to be absolutely clear: this PR is just about adding new functionality that was not present before.

Sure but I think it's also an attractive nuisance. The VM is very tightly coupled to java.base and a few other core modules. I don't think the build should be supporting grabbing libjvm from another build or another location. Point taken that tools to build and test the JDK need to come from somewhere but it's not as tightly coupled as we have with the proposal here.

For the folks targeting embedded/small environments then I think the right thing is to publish the packaged modules (JMOD files) for the target platform and then use `jlink` to create the run-image with the right  VM + small set of modules that are appropriate for the target environment.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24063#issuecomment-2735829450