[Bug java/15474] libgcj jar file should always be in classpath at runtime

["green at redhat dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Additional Comments From green at redhat dot com  2004-08-25 16:17 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> There is no good reason why 
> bytecode must be available at runtime.

I suppose -- but if it's installed, what's the harm?

> Unfortunately, if there are important applications that rely for some reason
on being able to do this, 
> then we may not be able to avoid it. Anthony, what prompted this PR exactly?

The testsuite for a bytecode munging library required it.  I believe it was a
dependency of Groovy.

> If we decide to do this, there is the issue of how to _find_ the right
libgcj.jar at runtime. 

What's wrong with the sun.boot.class.path property we're already depending on in
Ant?

> That may be useful in other ways, such as automatically finding the right extdir.

We have the java.ext.dirs property.

AG


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