From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>,
gcc Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
GCC Java <java@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: --enable-plugin option overloaded
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcrfx9f4763.fsf@dhcp-172-17-9-151.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADC26C4.5040801@redhat.com> (Andrew Haley's message of "Mon\, 19 Oct 2009 09\:43\:48 +0100")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-18 22:08 Matthias Klose
2009-10-19 8:43 ` Andrew Haley
2009-10-19 17:37 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2009-10-19 17:43 ` Andrew Haley
2009-10-22 7:16 ` Matthias Klose
2009-10-22 9:06 ` Andrew Haley
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