make reconfigure broken (quoting problem?)

[Martin Buchholz]

It looks to me like this feature was broken at the time of its backport to
jdk8u

changeset:   2163:2209644bcac4
user:        kevinw
date:        2018-04-10 07:46 -0700
8034199: Add 'reconfigure' target for re-creating a configuration
Reviewed-by: ihse, erikj, tbell

Recipe:
hg update 2209644bcac4 && hg log -r . && bash configure
--with-toolchain-type=gcc --with-boot-jdk=$HOME/jdk/jdk7 && make
reconfigure
...
configure: Toolchain type gcc --with-boot-jdk=.../jdk/jdk7 is not valid on
this platform.
configure: Valid toolchains: gcc clang.
configure: error: Cannot continue.



On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 11:35 AM Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 29/03/2019 16:23, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> > Recipe:
> >
> > ( rm -rf build; set -x; bash configure --with-toolchain-type=gcc
> > --with-boot-jdk=$HOME/jdk/jdk7 && make reconfigure )
> > =>
> > configure: Toolchain type gcc --with-boot-jdk=.../jdk/jdk7 is not valid
> on
> > this platform.
> > configure: Valid toolchains: gcc clang.
> >
> > ---
> > Do y'all always build from scratch?
> >
>
> Personally speaking, not always. It depends what I've altered.
>
> Where are you seeing this? jdk8u or jdk8u-dev? And any idea what change
> caused it?
>
> Thanks,
> --
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