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

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2011-08-22 15:54]:
> 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

Out of curiosity, why would one want to use a different binary via
--with-java than the one in jdk-home? Just trying to understand what the
use case there is..

Cheers,
Deepak

> 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.
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