Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ

Eric Gallager <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Sep 2016 14:37:00 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.patches,gmane.comp.gcc.java.patches
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On 9/5/16, Matthias Klose <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05.09.2016 17:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> As discussed.  I think I should ask a Global reviewer to approve this
>> one.  For obvious reasons I haven't included the diffs to the deleted
>> gcc/java and libjava directories.  The whole tree, post GCJ-deletion,
>> is at svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcj/gcj-deletion-branch
>> if anyone would like to try it.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>>
>> 2016-09-05  Andrew Haley  <[email protected]>
>>
>> 	* Makefile.def: Remove libjava.
>> 	* Makefile.tpl: Likewise.
>> 	* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
>> 	* configure.ac: Likewise.
>> 	* configure: Likewise.
>> 	* gcc/java: Remove.
>> 	* libjava: Likewise.
>
> Please consider removing boehm-gc as well.  The only other user is
> --enable-objc-gc, which better should use an external boehm-gc.
>
> Matthias
>
>


How about a compromise to have it be downloaded with the
contrib/download_prerequisites script, instead of entirely keeping it,
or entirely deleting it?

Eric