[icedtea-web] RFC: allow icedtea-web to run with just a jre

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 07:28 Fri 19 Aug     , Jiri Vanek wrote:
> Hi!!
> 

Please don't top-post.

> Just to keep in loop - This is related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731358 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731345
> 
> The patch itself looks ok. The only point I can see is that now there are three java paths set by configure -
> --with-jdk-home can specify SYSTEM_JDK_DIR
> --with-java can specify JAVA
> and now --with-jre is added.
> 
> Is there really any reason why to keep all thee variables?
> 

Yes, a jdk directory is required for building and it still should be possible to allow an alternative
binary to be set using --with-java.  All three have sensible defaults, so in most cases, none will have
to actually be specified and, when it is required, --with-jdk-home will work fine in most cases.

The jre directory was being hardcoded before so allowing it to be set by --with-jre-home is sensible IMHO.
-- 
Andrew :)

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