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

[Omair Majid]

On 08/22/2011 04:20 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Dr Andrew John Hughes<ahughes at redhat.com>  [2011-08-22 15:54]:
>> 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..
>

We have a 'javac' script in icedtea6 that (among other things) removes 
unrecognized arguments before invoking the real javac. This allows ecj 
to substitute for javac. I suppose a similar wrapper 'java' script might 
be desirable for some non-hotspot VM (like jamvm) that removes any 
unrecognized -XX hotspot options.

Cheers,
Omair