From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24346 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2010 10:48:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 24326 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Nov 2010 10:48:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_IB X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vw0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-vw0-f47.google.com) (209.85.212.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:48:38 +0000 Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so5142516vws.20 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.172.20 with SMTP id j20mr207538vcz.63.1288694916026; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yakj.usersys.redhat.com (nat-pool-brq-t.redhat.com [209.132.186.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o17sm3662718vbi.2.2010.11.02.03.48.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:48:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CCFEC80.8050809@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:48:00 -0000 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joern Rennecke CC: Geert Bosch , Steven Bosscher , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, java@gcc.gnu.org, Ian Lance Taylor Subject: Re: PATCH RFA: Do not build java by default References: <8FA16519-D671-4B52-B6C5-3A06187245F5@adacore.com> <20101101003034.kch6ozjs2oksssko-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> <20101101064716.ckmhffub4sgowcgc-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <20101101064716.ckmhffub4sgowcgc-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 On 11/01/2010 11:47 AM, Joern Rennecke wrote: > Quoting Geert Bosch : > >> On Nov 1, 2010, at 00:30, Joern Rennecke wrote: >>> But to get that coverage, testers will need to have gnat installed. >>> Will that become a requirement for middle-end patch regression testing? >> >> No, the language will only be built if a suitable bootstrap compiler >> is present. > > I know that. My question was aimed at soliciting opinions on patch > submission policy in the case that libjava build & testing are dropped > from standard bootstrap tests. You already need to have ecj installed, so it's one dependency more and one less. Paolo