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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:41 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Diego> I posted this question to the SC panel at the GCC Summit today. I
> Diego> wanted to consider the possibility of making java a non-default language.
>
> Andrew> If this were to happen it would break repeatedly.
>
> Yeah, our experience back when libgcj was not in the tree was not very
> good. It broke all the time.
>
> But, I am actually ok with having it be disabled by default, provided
> that regressions affect gcj are treated seriously: fixed in a timely
> way by the person causing the regression, or, if not, letting gcj
> maintainers start the patch-reversion clock.
>
> If we make this change I'll set up an auto-tester on the compile farm
> that builds gcj along with everything else. I think this would
> provide a pretty reasonable compromise. Ideally we could find a PPC
> box somewhere to do this as well -- anyone have some cycles to spare?
I'll continue to include java in my nightly builds on
powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu, for which I test with both -m32 and -m64.
My test results for trunk are sent to gcc-testresults daily. I also
do regular (not daily) builds for release branches as well as trunk,
but mailing to the outside world hasn't been working lately on the
machine where those builds are done; I'll get that fixed.
Janis