Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Thu Jun 19 15:17:00 GMT 2008


Andrew> My suggestion is that we build jc1 but not libgcj by default.
Andrew> HOWEVER, we build libgcj on the autobuilders and make very sure that
Andrew> if anyone breaks the libgcj build they have to fix their breakage,
Andrew> even tho it's not part of the default build.  That will prevent most
Andrew> of the bitrot while we figure out how to go forward.

Good idea.

Maybe instead of removing libgcj from the default builds, we can just
say that maintainers can --disable-libjava for regression testing
purposes.  This would make testers continue to test libgcj by default.

Tom



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