From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21199 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2010 15:31:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 21170 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Nov 2010 15:31:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_IB,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:31:24 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA2FVMaD012010 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:31:22 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA2FVMOA020670; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:31:22 -0400 Received: from parfait.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA2FVKcQ012173; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:31:20 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Jeff Law Cc: Diego Novillo , Ian Lance Taylor , Andrew Haley , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, java@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: PATCH RFA: Do not build java by default References: <4CCF8804.6020203@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:31:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4CCF8804.6020203@redhat.com> (Jeff Law's message of "Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:39:48 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00020.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Law writes: Jeff> Building libjava (at least for me) is primarily painful due to 2 files Jeff> (the names escape me) and the rather poor coarse level parallelism Jeff> (can't build the 32bit and 64bit multilibs in parallel for example). Jeff> Has anyone looked at fixing the build machinery for libjava to make it Jeff> more sensible? Nope. AFAIK it is already as parallelized as possible, but it has been a while since I looked at it. I thought the really bad file (HTML_401F.java, IIRC) had some functions split up so that it wasn't so evil any more. The multilib thing sounds like a top-level problem of some kind. At least, I don't recall that libjava does anything special here. Tom