Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Thu Jun 19 15:06:00 GMT 2008


>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:

Ian> Is it possible to only build and test a subset of libjava by default,
Ian> and still get useful coverage of Java?  The issue I see is simply that
Ian> building libjava is half of the time required for a bootstrap.

We could look into this.  The minimum subset is probably several
hundred classes.  For instance, Class refers to URL, which will
probably pull in most of java.net.

Maybe David Daney already knows what is minimal...?

Tom



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