From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21779 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2011 22:07:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 21743 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Mar 2011 22:07:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_GC,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (74.125.121.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:07:42 +0000 Received: from wpaz17.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz17.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.81]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p2MM7dbq012186 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:39 -0700 Received: from iwn33 (iwn33.prod.google.com [10.241.68.97]) by wpaz17.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p2MM7CgK011227 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:38 -0700 Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so9465430iwn.13 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.215.93 with SMTP id hd29mr2805207ibb.174.1300831657765; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coign.google.com (dhcp-172-19-10-158.mtv.corp.google.com [172.19.10.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g17sm2366087ibb.6.2011.03.22.15.07.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Lance Taylor To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, java@gcc.gnu.org, hp@axis.com, hp@bitrange.com Subject: Re: Target library disabling at toplevel References: Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:07:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Joseph S. Myers's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:51:38 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-System-Of-Record: true 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: 2011-03/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 "Joseph S. Myers" writes: > Why do a great many targets disable libgcj by default in the toplevel > configure.ac? I believe that it's just a hack: libgcj doesn't build on the target, but gcc/java does. Disabling libgcj lets the gcc configure/make complete in a natural way. unsupported_languages is a clearly superior approach, but it postdates many of the cases in which libgcj is added to noconfigdirs. Ian