Re: [cp-patches] Patch: RFC: add --with-vm-classes

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:14:33AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:

I haven't tested the patch yet. I just have a little comment...
> 
> I also made compile-classes and friends no longer conditional on
> INSTALL_CLASS_FILES; the idea being that libgcj wants to configure
> Classpath with '--with-glibj=none' -- but still wants the class files
> to be built.  It wasn't clear to me if not building the classes here
> was intentional; if so I can easily add a new mode for --with-glibj.

... This functionalitz is needed when packaging GNU classpath, e.g. for Debian.
This way glibj.zip needs only to be built on one arch and all other archs build
only the native parts. This was needed to make GNU classpath build e.g. on arm
which has not enough memory for gcj and jikes runs into an endless loop.
Plus building binary-indep parts again and again on 12 architetures is a waste
of CPU.


Michael
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