PATCH RFA: Do not build java by default

Tue Nov 2 16:43:00 GMT 2010

On 11/02/2010 03:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 11:47 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>> Quoting Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>:
>>>>> On Nov 1, 2010, at 00:30, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>>>> But to get that coverage, testers will need to have gnat installed.
>>>> Will that become a requirement for middle-end patch regression testing?
>>>>>> No, the language will only be built if a suitable bootstrap compiler
>>> is present.
>>>> I know that. My question was aimed at soliciting opinions on patch
>> submission policy in the case that libjava build & testing are dropped
>> from standard bootstrap tests.
>> You already need to have ecj installed, so it's one dependency more and
> one less.

I may be mistaken, but I don't think that is true. Building and testing 
of libgcj *does not* require ecj.
David Daney