Vmiklos what ARM hardware do you have ? I'm not sure how things stand
where ARM is concerned but I think we shoud remove gcj for i686 and
x86_64.
 During my conversion to openjdk7 I didn't really leave much that
still uses gcj and maybe this applies to ARM too.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Elentir, all,
>
> The gcc package build on vegaarm was known to fail due to the 1day time
> limit of syncpkgcd -- so James asked me to build it on my arm HW, and it
> was still insanely slow, basically it took 3 and a half days to do so.
>
> Given that gcc is a package we build regularly, this is simply
> unacceptable. For normal packages, we can play tricks with distcc, but
> for gcc, this won't work. Which leads to the question:
>
> Anything really needs the ada, fortran, java and objc compilers in the
> arm port? I see you also ported java-gcj-compat to arm -- so I'm not
> sure if it's really l'art pour l'art or needed by something.
>
> Unless I hear objections, I would like to remove these on arm to speed
> up the gcc build.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Miklos
>
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