RFR: 8024815: jdk8-build nightly builds are failing on windows with configure: error: unrecognized options: --with-dxsdk

[David Holmes]

I like it too!

David

On 18/09/2013 8:22 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> This looks much better, thanks!
>
> /Erik
>
> On 2013-09-18 11:43, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> On 2013-09-18 11:06, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>> When removing --with-dxsdk, we forgot about backwards compatibility.
>>> When removing configure options, we need to leave them along as noops
>>> for a time to allow for users of the configure API time to change.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8024815/webrev.root.01/
>>
>> I talked privately with Erik about this, and he agreed to drop his
>> proposed patch and let me work on a different approach instead.
>>
>> This webrev does basically the same thing as Eriks fix, but
>> establishes a framework for deprecating arguments, to make future
>> deprecations more easy to do and more consistent in style.
>>
>> So, please review this fix instead of Erik's.
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8024815-make-with-dxsdk-deprecated/webrev.01
>>
>>
>> /Magnus
>>
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