module/bootclass troubles with jdk9

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 02/03/2015 03:40 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Gibbons 
> <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com <mailto:jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>     The suggestion to be able to point at a JRE is a new and
>     interesting one. Thanks.
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> 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).
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> 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.

Generally, the idea of pointing at a JDK/JRE was something we were 
considering going forward; what's new is consider it for "going back" as 
well, at least for javac.

-- Jon