Am 09.11.2013 01:24, schrieb Ian Lance Taylor: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> So instead of proposing that we just remove Java from the default languags, >> I propose that we replace Java with Go. > > I'm certainly in favor of removing Java from the set of default > languages. > > I'm less sure about adding Go. > > Right now Go does not build on a range of targets, notably including > Windows, MacOS, AIX, and most embedded systems. We would have to > disable it by default on targets that are not supported, which is > straightforward (we already have rules to disable java on targets it > does not support). But to the extent that there are options like > -fnon-call-exceptions that are tested primarily by Java and Go, we > would get less coverage of those options, since we would not test them > on systems that Java supports but Go does not. > > More seriously, the Go sources live in a separate repository, and are > copied to the GCC repo. In practice this means that when Go breaks, > it can't be fixed until I am online to fix it. I don't think it would > be good for GCC for a bootstrap break to depend on me. Of course we > could change the rules somewhat, and let people commit changes to the > Go parts of the GCC repo which I would then have to copy out. But > it's something to think about.
One more thing for posting test results with multilib enabled: It would be nice if libgo would use dejagnu and honor RUNTESTFLAGS for multilib test runs. Matthias
