PATCH RFA: Do not build java by default

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Mon Nov 1 08:59:00 GMT 2010


On 10/31/2010 07:09 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> This patch should not of course change whether or not distros choose to
> package the Java compiler; undoubtedly they would continue to do so,
> just as they package the Ada compiler today.
> 
> Comments?  Approvals?

I see your point, but this will lead to some quality regressions in gcc
itself.  libgcj is a good stress test for gcc, and has revealed some
bugs in the past.  It might be possible to mitigate some of this with
autotesters that run a full libgcj bootstrap every night.

Andrew.



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