--enable-plugin option overloaded

Mon Oct 19 08:43:00 GMT 2009

Matthias Klose wrote:
> --enable-plugin is used by classpath (part of libjava) and now by GCC
> itself. disabling the build of the gcjwebplugin now disables plugin
> support in GCC as well. Please could the option for enabling GCC plugin
> support be renamed to something like --enable-plugins,
> --enable-gcc-plugin, --enable-gcc-plugins ? The only reason for not
> renaming the existing libjava option is that it was there first, and
> that it is part of an imported tree.

That doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me. We should rename
the libjava option --enable-web-plugin or --enable-browser-plugin .
Andrew.