Janis Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:41 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Diego> I posted this question to the SC panel at the GCC Summit today. I >> Diego> wanted to consider the possibility of making java a non-default >> language. >> >> Andrew> If this were to happen it would break repeatedly. >> >> Yeah, our experience back when libgcj was not in the tree was not very >> good. It broke all the time. >> >> But, I am actually ok with having it be disabled by default, provided >> that regressions affect gcj are treated seriously: fixed in a timely >> way by the person causing the regression, or, if not, letting gcj >> maintainers start the patch-reversion clock. >> >> If we make this change I'll set up an auto-tester on the compile farm >> that builds gcj along with everything else. I think this would >> provide a pretty reasonable compromise. Ideally we could find a PPC >> box somewhere to do this as well -- anyone have some cycles to spare? > > I'll continue to include java in my nightly builds on > powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu, for which I test with both -m32 and -m64. > My test results for trunk are sent to gcc-testresults daily. I also > do regular (not daily) builds for release branches as well as trunk, > but mailing to the outside world hasn't been working lately on the > machine where those builds are done; I'll get that fixed.
That would be really helpful. Andrew.
