On 2015-03-03 13:01, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
Open question: Should we do the same for toolchain-type=gcc? I'm not quite sure what we're getting from calling the AC_PROG_OBJC macro, except perhaps a loss of transparency on how our tools are picked up. :-/ In fact, maybe we should just skip the OBJC variable completely. In fact, for Objective-C++ (.mm) files, we just use the normal C++ compiler.
The more I think of it, the more I like this idea. Here's a new patch that does exactly this.
WebRev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8074099-remove-objc/webrev.01 /Magnus