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Re: Can't build gcc cvs HEAD on cygwin: libjava/prims.cc:145: error: overloaded function with no contextual type information
Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch> writes:
| Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
|
| > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
| >
| >>>Given that this patch apparently was not properly tested at all,
| >>
| >>This is a bit extreme. I cleanstrapped the patch in a tree which
| >>had --enable-languages=c,c++, so I didn't notice libgcj was not being build.
|
| Personally I'd welcome if a core cp change happens that it should be a
| must to bootstrap a complete gcc (except ada, g77 ?)
| Libgcj contains a large part of c++. It's a good way to see if your
| change is safe or if we uncover another problem.
A bootstrap exercises more the C front-end than the C++ front-end.
What might be valuable is enabling java when testing a C++ change.
(given the time it takes to build Java, I don't know how much changes
people will do in a day...).
What is "interesting" in this case is that bootstrapping the C++
front-end does NOT reveal a problem.
-- Gaby