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Re: fix for CLASSPATH/classpath switch behaviour

Nic Ferrier wrote:

>The current GCJ switches are incompatible with Sun's. This means it's
>very difficult to write portable makefiles or to switch from Sun's
>compiler to GCJ.
>
>The attached patch fixes the switching problem for the following
>programs:
>
>- gcj
>- jcf-dump
>- gcjh
>
>The patch also fixes the GCJ texinfo manual.
>
>
>+  printf ("  --bootclasspath PATH    Set path to find .class files including vm classes\n");
>

I suggest that this be changed to something like "Set path to find 
.class files, overriding built-in class path".

Otherwise, I don't have authority to approve compiler patches, but this 
patch looks like the right thing to do to me. Alex?

regards

Bryce.
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