RFC: micro-libgcj merge proposal

Fri Jan 13 20:14:00 GMT 2006

>>>>> "Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

>> I cannot use micro-libgcj if it contains too small a sub-set of
>> libgcj. Likewise I don't want it to be too big. My requirements do
>> not cleanly fit into any of Sun's J2ME profiles so I don't want that
>> either.

Per> That is why we need pre-processing. At configure time you select a
Per> "profile" - either a "standard" named profile or a custom profile.
Adopting preprocessing in libgcj would put the maintenance cost on the
wrong people -- those doing a merge and trying to make a full J2SE,
not those wanting an unusual custom build.
So, I think preprocessing would have to be accepted upstream first.
Tom