Re: --enable-plugin option overloaded

Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrew Haley <[email protected]> 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
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