3.1 bootstrap failure in libjava

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-Apr-2001, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> This situation is just going to get worse as we add more front ends to
> the gcc repository.  Mark's plan of disconnecting the front and back
> ends sounds good to me (from my position of utter ignorance :-), but
> it is a sad fact that the maintainers who would most benefit from this
> -- those working on the less popular front ends -- are also the least
> likely to have the manpower to implement it.

That's the first I've heard of this plan of disconnecting the front
and back ends.  Could you or Mark elaborate on it?  What do you mean by
"disconnecting", exactly?

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