Cleaning up JDK detection in IcedTea

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/7/20 Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> This patch:
>>
>> * merges all the --with-gcj-jdk, --with-icedtea-home,
>> --with-openjdk-home options into one option: --with-jdk-home is now
>> the one and only option for specifying the JDK to use.
>> * makes more use of the JDK setting in deciding which javac, java,
>> jar, rmic and javah to use.
>> * removes --with-icedtea and --with-openjdk, replacing them with the
>> more accurate --disable-bootstrap
>
> This looks very useful.  Fewer options with the same functionality means
> less ways to screw up the configuration.
>

That's the idea :) I've seen the same issues come up time and time
again, which suggests there is probably a better and more intuitive
way to be doing things...

> Matt Flaschen
>



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