diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html
index 56b0b39f4..413a30e1e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/javac.html
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ while all others are <code>false</code>.</p>
     &lt;fileset dir="lib" includes="*.jar"/&gt;
   &lt;/path&gt;
   &lt;javac srcdir="src" destdir="classes"&gt;
-    &lt;compilerarg arg="-Xbootstrap/p:${toString:lib.path.ref}"/&gt;
+    &lt;compilerarg arg="-Xbootclasspath/p:${toString:lib.path.ref}"/&gt;
   &lt;/javac&gt;
 </pre>