classpath/bootclasspath question

Thu Mar 14 17:53:00 GMT 2002

This issue recently came up with the Classpath project as well, hence
the patch mentioned in
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/classpath/2002-March/002099.html to
override environment variables when compiling with Jikes by explicitly
mentioning all possible -classpath variants on the command-line.
Tom Tromey wrote:
>> >>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
>> Bryce> libjava needs to make sure that only its own classes are used
> Bryce> during compilation - any other classes including any existing
> Bryce> libgcj.jar must be ignored. What is the correct compiler option
> Bryce> to say "use only this classpath and nothing else"? I thought
> Bryce> -bootclasspath would do this, but now that I look at the manual
> Bryce> this is apparantly not the case.
>> My reading of the manual is that you would have to specify both
> -classpath (to override the environment variable) and -bootclasspath
> (to override the built-in libgcj.jar).
>> This certainly seems weird. But I think JDK compatibility is more
> important than having the "best" interface (bleah). Is this what the
> JDK requires? Or are we subtly divergent? (I haven't looked.)
>> Tom

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