Re: Configuration class and --enable-native-sync

[Archie Cobbs]

Steven Augart wrote:
> > How about including all the build options in the Configuration class?
> > 
> >     public class Configuration {
> >       public static final String BUILD_OPTIONS = {
> >      "--enable-jni", "--enable-load-library", ...
> >       };
> >       ...
> >     }
> Perhaps we could include even the build options that automatically had 
> their default values set?  So, even if the user had not explicitly 
> stated "--enable-jni", we would still include "--enable-jni", since 
> it's the default?
> 
> I'm trying to guard against the defaults possibly changing.  If we 
> were to, for example, one day make Classpath's default be 
> --enable-portable-native-sync, I'd still want Jikes RVM to correctly 
> read that the Classpath installation had that feature enabled.

Agreed.. in general more info is better. E.g., why not also throw in
the output of "uname -a", the classpath version, etc.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com