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

[Deepak Bhole]

* Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> [2011-08-22 16:26]:
> 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.
> 

Ah. Thanks for the clarification!

Cheers,
Deepak