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Document reasons for using bootclasspath in Makefile.am 2011-03-30 Omair Majid <omajid@redhat.com> * Makefile.am: Document reason for using bootclasspath.
author Omair Majid <omajid@redhat.com>
date Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:46:08 -0400
parents ee199149caa9
children 17d77cfe0bdc
files ChangeLog Makefile.am
diffstat 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Wed Mar 30 17:43:32 2011 -0400
+++ b/ChangeLog	Wed Mar 30 17:46:08 2011 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-03-30  Omair Majid  <omajid@redhat.com>
+
+	* Makefile.am: Document reason for using bootclasspath.
+
 2011-03-30  Omair Majid  <omajid@redhat.com>
 
 	* netx/javaws.1: Fix FILES section to point to
--- a/Makefile.am	Wed Mar 30 17:43:32 2011 -0400
+++ b/Makefile.am	Wed Mar 30 17:46:08 2011 -0400
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@
 IT_CLASS_TARGET_VERSION=6
 IT_JAVACFLAGS=$(IT_JAVAC_SETTINGS) -source $(IT_LANGUAGE_SOURCE_VERSION) -target $(IT_CLASS_TARGET_VERSION)
 
+#
+# We need the jars in bootclasspath for a couple of reasons
+#  - we use classes (in the sun.applet package) loaded by the bootclassloader
+#    using another classloader to load classes from the same package causes an
+#    IllegalAccessException
+#  - we want full privileges
+#
 JRE='"$(SYSTEM_JDK_DIR)/jre"'
 LAUNCHER_BOOTCLASSPATH="-Xbootclasspath/a:$(datadir)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)/netx.jar$(RHINO_RUNTIME)"
 PLUGIN_BOOTCLASSPATH='"-Xbootclasspath/a:$(datadir)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)/netx.jar:$(datadir)/$(PACKAGE_NAME)/plugin.jar$(RHINO_RUNTIME)"'