--enable-plugin option overloaded

Mon Oct 19 17:37:00 GMT 2009

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> 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 .

We could rename in the top leve configure/Makefile if we don't want to
touch the classpath sources.
Ian