ia64 libjava java-signal.h build failure
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Apr 23 10:13:00 GMT 2001
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
Alexandre> Also, it bothers me that what seems to me like the
Alexandre> obvious course of action doesn't even seem right to you
Alexandre> :-)
Well, even reasonable people sometimes disagree.
The basic core of our disagreement is this philosophy:
Alexandre> timing; the earlier we enable it, the earlier we'll get
Alexandre> reports in case of failure and the earlier we'll get
Your approach is aggressive -- assume it works, and then disable it
where it doesn't. Mine is conservative -- assume it's broken, and
enable it where it's known to work.
In my my opinion, your approach is sensible for the mainline -- but
mine is sensible for the branch.
You can rest assured that, based on my experience, if we were building
a compiler for HP or Microsoft or some such -- instead of the FSF --
we wouldn't be having this conversation. Nothing like this would even
be considered at this late a date.
We are only waiting for Richard/Benjamin's merge, a few bug fixes, and
final testing; there is nothing major between us and and the release.
I do not want to take any unncessary risks at this point.
One of the reasons is that I am running out of time to work on this
release -- although I can work on the next one when this one is done.
That means that we need to ship relatively quickly, or I will turn
into a pumpkin, which I am egotistical enough to think is probably not
a good thing at this point.
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