316621 - rt.jar and classes.zip may not be needed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(JSS Graveyard :: Library, defect)

Description

[Wan-Teh Chang]

In mozilla/security/coreconf/jdk.mk, we define JAVA_CLASSES
and JRE_CLASSES whose values contain rt.jar (was classes.zip)
in the JDK or JRE.

I found that JRE_CLASSES is defined but not used.  And in fact,
JRE does not have rt.jar.  This means the JRE_CLASSES variable
is useless.

Also, the fact that we could build JSS with the nonexistent
classes.zip in the value of JAVA_CLASSES before means
JAVA_CLASSES may not be needed.  JAVA_CLASSES is only used
to define JDK_CLASSPATH, which is passed as argument to the
-classpath option for the various Java command:

285 # define a default JDK classpath
286 ifeq ($(JDK_CLASSPATH),)
287         JDK_CLASSPATH = '$(JAVA_DESTPATH)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(JAVA_SOURCEPATH)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(JAVA_CLASSES)'
288 endif
289 
290 # by default, override CLASSPATH environment variable using the JDK classpath option with $(JDK_CLASSPATH)
291 ifeq ($(JDK_CLASSPATH_OPT),)
292         JDK_CLASSPATH_OPT = -classpath $(JDK_CLASSPATH)
293 endif

Perhaps it is not necessary to specify that -classpath option?

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

JSS development has moved from the Mozilla community to the Dogtag PKI community. Please re-file this bug at https://github.com/dogtagpki/jss if it is still relevant. Thank you!