Problem Compiling Java

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Andrew,

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 17:19 +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/1/11 Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at gmail.com>:
> > On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 14:10 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> >> > I simply escaped them once:
> >> >
> >> > -bootclasspath \'\'
> >> >
> >> > At least that worked on my box.
> >>
> >> You mean like in the attached patch?
> >> That seems correct to me because in all those cases it is a shell
> >> snippet inside the Makefile. If I said that was wrong in the past, I
> >> cannot remember why I thought so. Running a full bootstrap now to double
> >> check. Will check it in if that passes. OK?
> >
> > Exactly like the attached patch.  Please commit if it's OK.
>
> FWIW we use a Perl version in IcedTea7 to get round this issue.

So, it is only once we parse the empty argument in the javac.in script
that it disappears? In that case it would be good to have the
alternative javac.in script backported to icedtea6 indeed. It is a more
general solution that what I checked in (although I don't believe there
is an empty bootclasspath set anywhere else in the build).

Cheers,

Mark