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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:05:57 -0600
- Subject: Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
- References: <485A66B5.9030406@google.com> <485A68D0.4000600@redhat.com> <m3y751v598.fsf@google.com>
- Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
Ian> Is it possible to only build and test a subset of libjava by default,
Ian> and still get useful coverage of Java? The issue I see is simply that
Ian> building libjava is half of the time required for a bootstrap.
We could look into this. The minimum subset is probably several
hundred classes. For instance, Class refers to URL, which will
probably pull in most of java.net.
Maybe David Daney already knows what is minimal...?
Tom