From: Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>,
Iain Sandoe <iain_sandoe@mentor.com>, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>,
Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>,
GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
GCJ-patches <java-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01B885DF-4340-43C6-A784-21326A9CA8CF@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yddr37ta01s.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
On Oct 6, 2016, at 9:56 AM, Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> wrote:
> I wouldn't hard-fail, but completely disable objc-gc with an appropriate
> warning. The Objective-C maintainers may have other preferences, though.
gcc historically is fairly weak at complex configurations. I need the 32 bit libraries to support -m32, but, those libraries might not be present, but do I build all the rest of my libraries, and if i do, do I test them once build, but what is other dependent external libraries are missing. Do I turn off the multilib, or do I not?
I used to manage some of this by passing in configure flags to control multilibbing based upon what libraries were install and then run testing based upon that. Of course, that's all external to gcc proper. Doesn't really make gcc any easier to configure and build or advance gcc.
We could smell the system at configure time, and turn on and off multilib variants and things like objc gc. Target specific, but I think it helps to ponder this in a target independent way. This can then turn on and off objc gc support directly. To get it on, one would need to install the needed libraries, and reconfigure and rebuild gcc. I think I might like that the best. Has a nice easy of use about it, and then everything gcc does is rather sane (no funny build errors when a needed library isn't present).
So, I think, if I understand what you propose, I'm fine with that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-06 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-05 15:13 Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 15:29 ` Matthias Klose
2016-09-05 15:31 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 18:37 ` Eric Gallager
2016-09-05 18:47 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 15:32 ` Matthew Fortune
2016-09-05 15:34 ` Andrew Haley
[not found] ` <FB08E20B-5ED1-45BA-BFA0-11E7807840D2@gmail.com>
2016-09-05 16:17 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-06 9:06 ` Richard Biener
2016-09-06 9:08 ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-09-06 21:18 ` Jeff Law
2016-09-07 11:41 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2016-09-09 11:03 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2016-09-05 16:26 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2016-09-05 16:30 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-05 18:40 ` Eric Gallager
2016-09-30 15:34 ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-22 16:51 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2017-01-22 17:17 ` Per Bothner
2017-01-22 18:41 ` Per Bothner
2017-01-23 9:01 ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-23 9:05 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-01-23 12:52 ` Per Bothner
2017-01-23 13:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-01-23 14:51 ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-22 18:36 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2016-09-10 12:00 ` NightStrike
2016-09-11 8:25 ` Andrew Haley
2016-09-19 15:26 ` Andrew Hughes
2016-10-03 23:12 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-04 8:40 ` Rainer Orth
2016-10-04 8:41 ` Andrew Haley
2016-10-04 17:23 ` Mike Stump
2016-10-04 17:25 ` Andrew Pinski
2016-10-04 18:40 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-05 16:28 ` Jeff Law
[not found] ` <2b5de569-1efd-f407-49c2-c9fa84cc5315@ubuntu.com>
2016-10-06 16:16 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-06 16:43 ` Rainer Orth
2016-10-06 16:47 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-06 16:54 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-06 16:56 ` Rainer Orth
2016-10-06 17:10 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-06 18:01 ` Mike Stump [this message]
2016-10-06 23:59 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-07 8:31 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-10-10 4:03 ` Matthias Klose
2016-10-10 7:58 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-11-20 20:42 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-21 5:34 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-21 10:24 ` Iain Sandoe
2016-11-21 12:57 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-21 16:23 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-21 16:40 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-21 17:16 ` Peter Bergner
2016-11-21 17:16 ` Rainer Orth
2016-11-21 23:23 ` Matthias Klose
2016-11-22 17:13 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-29 21:23 ` Jeff Law
2016-11-30 1:11 ` Remove stray '@' from install.texi (was Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ) David Malcolm
2016-11-30 1:20 ` Sandra Loosemore
2016-11-30 1:26 ` David Malcolm
2016-09-05 22:49 [PATCH] Delete GCJ Bernd Edlinger
2016-09-06 0:20 ` Eric Gallager
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