Re: Target library disabling at toplevel

Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gcc.java.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
"Joseph S. Myers" <[email protected]> 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
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