Bug 11877

Summary:	Too many languages in GCC
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	DC <gtbgs>
Component:	[OLD] GCC Porting	Assignee:	Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) <mkennedy>
Status:	RESOLVED REMIND
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description DC 2002-12-09 20:01:18 UTC

Is there any way to get more fine-grained control over which languages and
libraries are installed with GCC? Portage lets you decide whether you want to
build the Java compiler, but C++, Ada, Fortran, and Objective C are built by
default, even though many people do not need all these languages. Perhaps some
new USE flags?

Comment 1 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-14 00:10:53 UTC

assigned

Comment 2 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-14 00:15:26 UTC

c++ is required by certain core packages early on (ie. groff, iirc).

fortran is required by many of the mathematic and even multimedia packages.

still researching if anything uses objective c

java is alreay optional in the gcc ebuild (USE=-java and it won't be built).

this leaves ada, which afaik, isn't used by anything.

so possibly an objc use flag, and probably an ada use flag.

comments?

Comment 3 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-24 06:42:45 UTC

cant do much with this during release