-classpath vs --class-path

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Thank you for the report. It is obviously intended that these options 
should simply be aliases for each other, but I will see if there is 
something else going on to explain what you are seeing.

-- Jon


On 1/5/17 3:23 AM, Nicolai Parlog wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> during experimentation I encountered compiler behavior that I found
> rather strange: It looks like the -classpath and --class-path options do
> not behave the same way.
>
> In my experiment I create a bunch of modules in 'mods' and then create
> the last one by putting the modules on the class path (no reason, just
> playing around):
>
>      javac -cp "mods/*" -d classes/advent src/advent/advent/Main.java
>
> This works and '-classpath' does, too, but '--class-path' doesn't. In
> that case the compiler complains that the packages contained by the
> modules in 'mods' do not exist.
>
> For an executable version see here:
>
> 	https://github.com/CodeFX-org/demo-jigsaw-advent-calendar/blob/compiling-with-deps-as-modules/compileAndRun.sh#L41-L48
>
> I noticed this on b146 but it also exists in b148; both EA-Jigsaw builds.
>
>   so long ... Nicolai
>
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