Re: --enable-plugin option overloaded

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 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.

That sounds like a nice solution.

Andrew.