For users of --with-openjdk

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 14:34 Tue 10 Aug     , Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > This option has now been removed from IcedTea6 HEAD in line with the
> > changes made to IcedTea7 a year ago:
> > 
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/0ba4ad0c362b
> > 
> > To do a quick non-bootstrap build, the option is now --disable-bootstrap.
> > To specify an explicit jdk, use --with-jdk-home=<path>.
> 
> I think that this flag is still used (actually filtered out :-) in
> assignment to variable ADD_ZERO_CONFIGURE_ARGS
> 

I didn't check the add-vm support and I guess it was added after the original
patch (July 2009 IIRC).  Probably just needs correcting to the new flag.

> Btw, is it on purpose or mistake that configuration switches starting
> with the "--with-*" are not checked during ./configure?
> 
> For example, when I run
> ./configure --xyzzy
> or
> ./configure --with
> I got error (which is correct of course)
> 
> but when I run
> ./configure --with-xyzzy
> or
> ./configure --with-
> it passes.
> 

You should get a warning:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-jdk-tests, --disable-langtools-tests, --with-openjdk

I believe you can make it error out instead, but that then means you
have to filter your flags more carefully depending on the IcedTea
version being built.  At present, setting --with-openjdk and
--disable-bootstrap should mean you can handle all versions of IcedTea
with no problems.  If you have an argument to --with-openjdk, you'll also
need --with-jdk-home=<arg>.

The end goal is for both bootstrap modes to work with either jdk.  But
we're not there yet.

> > 
> > Both options were previously merged together under --with-openjdk and are now
> > available separately.
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