review (S) for 6684007: PrintAssembly plugin not available for linux or windows

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 00:06, John Rose <John.Rose at sun.com> wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~never/6684007
>
> Reviewed.  Very nice!
>
> I'm amazed that $(BINUTILSDIR)/configure does what you want, since it runs
> from $(TARGET_DIR) which might be different from BINUTILSDIR, but I guess it
> must work.

I think this is/was an important feature for release engineers at
Cygnus/Red Hat.
The intent is that any GNU-style configure script works this way, but
of course not all do.

Martin