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Re: [PATCH] Add support for --disable-libjava-multilib
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:33:31 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for --disable-libjava-multilib
- References: <20071215005734.GF20451@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> libjava is far bigger than any other target library in gcc and takes
> much longer to build. This patch (the configure bits originate from
> SUSE?, I've only added corresponding configure.ac change) allows
> building all target libs but libjava as multilib. This can be handy in
> distribution builds (as can be seen by both SUSE and Red Hat having
> something similar (though I admit my original patch was much bigger
> hack)), or when various devel libraries and headers libjava needs (Xorg,
> GNOME, ALSA, firefox, ...) are only available for the primary arch, or
> even when just trying to bootstrap/regtest gcc quickly on say x86_64.
Looks fair, though I cannot approve it. If it goes in, I believe it's
significant enough to warrant documentation in gcc/doc/install.texi and
the release notes at gcc-4.3/changes.html.
Gerald