On Aug 3, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> >> No. The Makefiles should be set so that the "bootstrap runtime library" >> is overridden >> with -bootclasspath, meaning that the compilation will fail if the >> classes are not >> available to javac in source or compiled form. >> > > Then where is it going to get these classes if -implicit:none is used to > stop them being compiled from source?
As I understand it, -implicit:none just prevents the implicitly compiled source classfile images from being written to disk. Fredrik has some ideas on how to re-use these implicitly compiled classfiles in the build infrastructure changes, but I'm a little shy on the details right now. -kto
