This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 05:21, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> Kaveh does have a point, Diego. The libjava build regularly finds middle-end
> problems that are not revealed by bootstrap testing.
So does Ada. This is why I have offered keep building it on my nightly testers.
IME, bugs found during libjava have been also triggered during
libstdc++ and/or C. Though several folks at the summit mentioned that
they had found bugs triggered only by libjava.
My point remains that libjava has become a serious problem in the
development cycle of GCC. It takes roughly 3 hours on modern hardware
to finish a GCC bootstrap (with -j2). A significant chunk of which is
taken by libjava. If we could at least reduce the overhead by not
building all of it by default, it would be a huge win.
Diego.