[PATCH] Add support for --disable-libjava-multilib
Gerald Pfeifer
gerald@pfeifer.com
Thu Dec 27 13:00:00 GMT 2007
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> libjava is far bigger than any other target library in gcc and takes
> much longer to build. This patch (the configure bits originate from
> SUSE?, I've only added corresponding configure.ac change) allows
> building all target libs but libjava as multilib. This can be handy in
> distribution builds (as can be seen by both SUSE and Red Hat having
> something similar (though I admit my original patch was much bigger
> hack)), or when various devel libraries and headers libjava needs (Xorg,
> GNOME, ALSA, firefox, ...) are only available for the primary arch, or
> even when just trying to bootstrap/regtest gcc quickly on say x86_64.
Looks fair, though I cannot approve it. If it goes in, I believe it's
significant enough to warrant documentation in gcc/doc/install.texi and
the release notes at gcc-4.3/changes.html.
Gerald
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