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Re: Building libgcj on Linux/Alpha
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
- Subject: Re: Building libgcj on Linux/Alpha
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:01:39 -0700
- Cc: java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <376E4886.440C2DFA@sigma6.com>
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> writes:
Jeff> Below are patches necessary to build/use libgcj on Linux/Alpha.
Cool!
Jeff> There is another small problem in boehm-gc... the
Jeff> alpha_mach_dep.s file has preprocessor symbols, and the current
Jeff> Makefile runs "as alpha_mach_dep.s" which fails on Linux. I got
Jeff> past by renaming it to alpha_mach_dep.S and compiling with "gcc
Jeff> -c alpha_mach_dep.S". Since patch isn't very friendly to
Jeff> renaming files, is there a cleaner workaround?
It seems like this ought to just work.
boehm-gc/Makefile.am has this:
.s.o:
$(LTCOMPILE) -x assembler-with-cpp -c $<
Can you find out why this rule is not being used?
Jeff> I noticed the current libgcj is based on 4.13alpha2... is there
Jeff> a plan to migrate to 4.14?
We are planning to do it soon, but I don't have a date in mind.
Are you sending the GC patches to Boehm as well?
Tom