Hiya Volker ,
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 17:35 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
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>
> So my question is, if there are any objectives if I'd change the
> current BOOT_RTJAR detection to the following lines:
>
> # Parse the settings of the 'sun.boot.class.path' property
> # The tricky thing is that we must quote AWK field references (i.e.
> $1, $2, ..)
> # and the name 'index' which is a M4-buildin function by placing brackets
> # (i.e. '[]') into the corresponding names.
> BOOT_RTJAR=`$BOOT_JDK/bin/java -XshowSettings 2>&1 | $NAWK ' \
> /path.separator/ { path_separator = $[]3} \
> /sun.boot.class.path/ { sun_boot_class_path = $[]3; \
> while (getline && !in[]dex($[]0,"=")) { \
> sun_boot_class_path =
> sun_boot_class_path "\n" $[]1 \
> } \
> } \
> END { gsub("\n", path_separator, sun_boot_class_path); print
> sun_boot_class_path }'`
>
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Much as though I like and indeed applaud, this change, on a more general
note, it surprises me that more use isn't made of the power of perl since
it [perl] is a fundamental part of autotools and thus has to be present
on the system when configure is run.
Rgds
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