On Sun, 29 May 2011, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > ...at least having the testsuite and Java separate makes a lot of sense. > > The vast majority of users does not need the former and the latter is
If building GCC from source, running tests is generally considered a good idea... > on the verge of becoming practically irrelevant. As one datapoint, the ... and while there may be a case for modifying what's on trunk of the repository, separate tarballs are a case where having rarely-used, rarely-tested different configurations (because the rest of the compiler may be affected by what disabled languages are present in the source tree, which is what led to this change) seems not justified by the limited space savings. If you want to remove some directories from your source tree, you are still free to do so and to submit fixes for any problems found; it's just not encouraged. > Also, changing this for older release branches as happened now does > cause all sorts of fun (for dubious definitions of this word) for > distribution packagers. :-( Nothing changed for release from previous branches, which use the script present on the branch in question; it's only snapshots that always use the trunk version of this script. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
