Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread Erik Joelsson
Hello Volker, I like this solution, even if it could be viewed as a bit of overkill. /Erik On 2013-11-14 17:35, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi, I wanted to solve 8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026964)

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread Volker Simonis
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, David Holmes david.hol...@oracle.com wrote: Hi Volker, On 15/11/2013 2:35 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi, I wanted to solve 8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi Erik, On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Erik Joelsson erik.joels...@oracle.com wrote: Hello Volker, I like this solution, even if it could be viewed as a bit of overkill. thanks:) I've just posted a RFR to the build-dev list:

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-15 Thread David Holmes
On 15/11/2013 8:36 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, David Holmes david.hol...@oracle.com wrote: Hi Volker, On 15/11/2013 2:35 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi, I wanted to solve 8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR

Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-14 Thread Volker Simonis
Hi, I wanted to solve 8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026964) and came across the question what the real semantics of BOOT_RTJAR is? Currently, for OpenJDK/Oracle based boot JDKs BOOT_RTJAR is simply

Re: Setting BOOT_RTJAR: rt.jar vs. 'sun.boot.class.path'

2013-11-14 Thread David Holmes
Hi Volker, On 15/11/2013 2:35 AM, Volker Simonis wrote: Hi, I wanted to solve 8026964: Building with an IBM J9 boot jdk requires special settings for BOOT_RTJAR (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026964) and came across the question what the real semantics of BOOT_RTJAR is? For the