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Re: Installing libgcj consumes huge amounts of memory
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:41 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> First, yeah, this is known. And, kudos to HJ for trying to fix this
> in 'make'.
If nothing else, HJ's hack is keeping things from being too insane
while y'all sort out the best fix.
> I've been considering working around this problem by just redoing the
> whole .java->.class step whenever any .java file changes. That would
> probably be slower for libgcj developers but at least wouldn't hugely
> hurt folks working elsewhere. Also, most class library development
> happens in Classpath these days anyway.
>
> Any comments on this?
No strong opinions on how you fix it, so long as it gets fixed :-)
Waiting on this is a major time sink right now.
In fact, this may be one of those cases where it's advisable to
fix make *and* fix the Java runtime build stuff.
jef