From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3131 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2005 16:34:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 3017 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2005 16:34:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Apr 2005 16:34:29 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DQpUX-0003BA-TE; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:34:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:35:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Matt Thomas Cc: Jonathan Wakely , Gcc Mailing List Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only? Message-ID: <20050427163425.GA12090@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Thomas , Jonathan Wakely , Gcc Mailing List References: <426F2D5D.7010305@3am-software.com> <200504271441.j3REfND27584@makai.watson.ibm.com> <426FAA43.7030009@3am-software.com> <20050427152844.GA86951@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <426FB37D.3060507@3am-software.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426FB37D.3060507@3am-software.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg01524.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:45:01AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote: > > If you survived without them previously you can do so now. > > (i.e. don't build libjava if your machine isn't capable of it) > > Yes, you can skip building libjava. But can you skip building GCC? > Will GCC 3.x be supported forever? If not, your compiler may have > to rely being cross-built. Being able to do a bootstrap is useful > and is part of the expected GCC testing but when it can only be > done one or two a week, it becomes a less practical test method. I have no idea what you're trying to say in this paragraph. Not only can you skip building libjava, you can skip building the compilers for any languages that you do not want to test. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC