FYI: submitted ecj patch upstream
Andrew Haley
aph@redhat.com
Tue Oct 10 10:22:00 GMT 2006
David Daney writes:
> Andrew Pinski wrote:
> >>I like the idea of checking in the .class files (perhaps in the form a a
> >>jar file) and CNI headers.
> >
> > If we are going to do that, what about a 4 stage bootstrap or so which just
> > compiles ecj to native also at the same time.
>
> You would not need an extra stage. Just build libgcj and ecj earlier in
> the bootstrap (in stage1 and/or stage2) so that stage3 would be built
> with the bootstrapped ecj.
This is turning into a discussion about "how" rather than "what". We
agree in principle that we whould not require a working JVM before
bootstrapping gcc with gcj. It would be nice to precompile ecj1 as
part of that bootstrap, but IMO it shouldn't be a requirement. The
fewer hard requirements the better.
Andrew.
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