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Re: GCC 4.2 branch comparision failure building Java
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> IIUC, the problem only manifests while *building* the release candidates,
> not for users of the release candidate.
>
> For 4.2, my suggestion is to just use a bootstrap4 while building the RC.
That's an attractive idea. But, I'd rather fix it correctly, because
distributors may run into the same problem.
> For 4.3, we can use --enable-stage1-languages=all when building the RCs.
> I can prepare a patch to do that automatically when --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir
> is passed.
That might work, but it seems like overkill; that just makes the
bootstrap process longer.
My preferred solution would be to remove --e-g-f-i-s. I think we should
just require that users have the tools they need to build the compilers,
and drop all of this complexity. However, I recognize that's probably
not the consensus opinion. Assuming that we can't do that, I'd rather
just fix the Makefiles, if there are any more such problems. As
Joseph's noted, the Java problem is already gone on mainline, thanks to
the ECJ integration.
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