can't build jigsaw with new javac

Jonathan Gibbons Jonathan.Gibbons at Sun.COM
Tue Mar 9 17:55:40 PST 2010


Mandy,

It seems anomalous that there are two different values for 
-Xbootclasspath in the modularize target.

>
> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/bin/javac  -source 7 
> -target 7 -encoding ascii 
> "-Xbootclasspath:/mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/classes"  
> -d /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/modules \
>             
> -Xbootclasspath:/mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/tmp/modules/classes\ 
>
>         -modulepath 
> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/modules \
>             -sourcepath 
> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/tmp/modules/src \
>             
> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/tmp/modules/src/*/module-info.java 
>
> javac: cannot specify both -bootclasspath and -modulepath
> Usage: javac <options> <source files>
> use -help for a list of possible options 

One value comes in via $(JAVACFLAGS), the other is explicit.

-- Jon


Mandy Chung wrote:
> On 03/09/10 12:16, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> Mandy,
>>
>> What are you trying to do here?  You can't have -Xbootclasspath and 
>> -modulepath.
>
> That was a hack for javac to find classes that are not in the default
> bootclasspath (e.g. lib/sa-jdi.jar).
>
> For example, $outputdir/tmp/modules/src/jsadebugd/module-info.java
> has a main class of sun.jvm.hotspot.jdi.SADebugServer that is not
> in $outputdir/classes
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Mandy
>
>>
>>> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/bin/javac  -source 7 
>>> -target 7 -encoding ascii 
>>> "-Xbootclasspath:/mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/classes"  
>>> -d /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/modules \
>>>             
>>> -Xbootclasspath:/mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/tmp/modules/classes\ 
>>>
>>>         -modulepath 
>>> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/modules \
>>>             -sourcepath 
>>> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/tmp/modules/src \
>>>             
>>> /mnt/w/jjg/work/jigsaw/jigsaw/build/linux-amd64/tmp/modules/src/*/module-info.java 
>>>
>>> javac: cannot specify both -bootclasspath and -modulepath
>>> Usage: javac <options> <source files>
>>> use -help for a list of possible options
>>
>> See this response from Mark back in December, available here: 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2009-December/000421.html 
>>
>>
>>> >/ -- do we allow or forbid any use of bootclasspath with any 
>>> modular code?
>>> /
>>> Forbid.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> -- Jon




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