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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:23:53 +0100
Subject: Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
References: <485A66B5.9030406@google.com> <485A68D0.4000600@redhat.com> <m3y751v598.fsf@google.com> <18523.58229.674677.943827@fleche.redhat.com>

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "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...?

Yeah.  Let's not disable java as default until we've at least
investigated this.

Andrew.

References:
- Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Diego Novillo
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
  - From: Tom Tromey

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