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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:00:27 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How about gcj? (Re: Not committing WARNS settings...)
Message-ID:  <20020206110027.C98054@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200202061805.g16I5JQ07324@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:05:16PM -0500
References:  <20020206092406.F96921@dragon.nuxi.com> <200202061805.g16I5JQ07324@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:05:16PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > Uh, NO! It is not needed by the  base system. We really do not want to
> > turn on  all the support libs,  etc.. that would be  needed with this.
> > There is a reason the gcc30 port takes 25 minutes to compile on a fast
> > 1.2 GHz Athlon.
> 
> That's  the thing.  gcc30  port,  essentially, installs  a  copy of  the
> compiler already available as part of  the base.

No it doesn't.  3.0.3 is a very different compiler from 2.95.3.

> But the base is missing
> gcj (the port does too for now), so one would be forced to add the port.

And the base system does not NEED a java compiler.

> Can we have  those installed, at least,  to ease the work  of the future
> porter?

Nope.

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