Re: PATCH RFA: Do not build java by default

Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.patches,gmane.comp.gcc.java.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently we build the Java frontend and libjava by default.  At the GCC
> Summit we raised the question of whether should turn this off, thus only
> building it when java is explicitly selected at configure time with
> --enable-languages.  Among the people at the summit, there was general
> support for this, and nobody was opposed to it.
>
> Here is a patch which implements that.  I'm sending this to the mailing
> lists gcc@ and java@, as well as the relevant -patches@ lists, because
> it does deserve some broader discussion.

I count 33 messages on the topic and it is clear that there is no
consensus.  I am withdrawing this proposed patch.

Ian
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