module/bootclass troubles with jdk9

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Gibbons <
jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> The suggestion to be able to point at a JRE is a new and interesting one.
> Thanks.
>

Seems natural to me.  Analogous to the -testjdk and -compilejdk flags of
jtreg.  In the transition-to-modules world it seems more important, since
it becomes harder to come up with the right -bootclasspath flag (or
whatever flag follows it).

Maybe "jrt" could be generalized.  Instead of simply "the" java run time of
the current jdk, it could additionally be a function jrt(jredir) that
somehow gives you the runtime classes of any jre, in a way that javac can
understand.