This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project.

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format:	[Raw text]

Re: Advice requested: how big can we be?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
Cc: "S. Bosscher" <S dot Bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>, "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org '" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:05:35 +0100
Subject: Re: Advice requested: how big can we be?
References: <4195D82C2DB1D211B9910008C7C9B06F01F3739F@lr0nt3.lr.tudelft.nl><20030916090220.B17092@synopsys.com>

Joe Buck writes:
 > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:50:32PM +0200, S. Bosscher wrote:
 > > You are going to make it impossible for many people to contribute
 > > to GCC or you'll have to accept that patches will be posted that
 > > have not been tested with Java enabled, and that even fewer
 > > people will be able to produce test results for GCJ.
 > 
 > I already skip Java builds and tests most of the time because it is so
 > expensive, and I'm sure that many others do the same.

So am I.  But a Java compatible library is big, and there's nothing we
can do about that.  

What I am interested to know is the class of boxes on which we can
reasonably expect people to build gcc.

Andrew.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Advice requested: how big can we be?
  - From: Karel Gardas

References:
- RE: Advice requested: how big can we be?
  - From: S. Bosscher
- Re: Advice requested: how big can we be?
  - From: Joe Buck

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]