Re: [PATCH] Delete GCJ

Rainer Orth <[email protected]> Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:56:31 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.patches,gmane.comp.gcc.java.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Matthias,

>>> this assumption may not hold, though: in Solaris 11+ where libgc is
>>> bundled, both 32 and 64-bit libs are present, as always.  I'd also claim
>>> that for multilib testing in general, it's bad to test different
>>> multilibs with different configurations, so I'd rather have people doing
>>> multilib testing obtain all variants of libgc.
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>> likewise on Darwin, people may well build =A1=B0fat=A1=B1 libraries, and=
 I also
>> would encourage testing of m32/m64,
>
> so you both prefer to hard-fail if any of the libgc variants needed for t=
he
> multilibs is missing?  Maybe force this behaviour with --enable-objc-gc=
=3Dyes, and
> skip those which are not available with -enable-objc-gc=3Dauto?

I wouldn't hard-fail, but completely disable objc-gc with an appropriate
warning.  The Objective-C maintainers may have other preferences, though.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University