[PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning

Andrew Hughes gnu.andrew@redhat.com
Thu Aug 20 02:35:00 GMT 2015


----- Original Message -----
> Jeff> It's probably time for the occasional discussion WRT dropping
> Jeff> gcj/libjava from the default languages and replace them with either
> Jeff> Ada or Go.
> 
> It's long past time to remove it.  It's only had minimal maintenance for
> years now.  No one is writing new features for it or fixing bugs.  There
> aren't any significant users.
> 
> I've always felt I should be the one to pull the trigger.  If this is
> acceptable I can take a stab at preparing a patch.
> 
> I thought maybe this would also enable deleting boehm-gc, zlib, or
> libffi; but I see now they all have other users in the tree now.
> 
> Tom
> 

No, it isn't. It's still a necessity for initial bootstrapping of OpenJDK/IcedTea.

By all means, disable it as a default but don't remove it.
-- 
Andrew :)

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