Re: [PATCH] Fix build failure on non-C99 targets

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

David Daney writes:
 > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > >>>>>>"Eric" == Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> writes:
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Eric> Libjava builds are again broken on non-C99 targets.  The
 > > Eric> following patch is sufficient to restore them.  Tested on
 > > Eric> sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 and sparc-sun-solaris2.[5678].  Is it
 > > Eric> good enough?
 > > 
 > > This is fine, thanks.
 > > 
 > 
 > Isn't libgcj always compiled with gcc/g++/gcj?  In all stage one builds (or
 > cross-compiles) that I have done, that is the case.  I don't see why the
 > host compiler would ever be used for compiling libgcj.
 > 
 > Am I missing something?

Yes.  "configure; make; make install" is supposed to work.
Bootstrapping is non-compulsory.

However, this declaration before use rule is a nightmare.  IMO, we
should always build gcc (all stages) so that is aborts with a hard
error if this happens.

Andrew.