Re: Trying to compile Xerces's jar

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Cowie writes:
 > On Tue, 2005-22-02 at 11:21 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > > Use -findirect-dispatch -Bsymbolic when compiling your jarfiles.  Use
 > > gcj 4.0 prerelease.
 > 
 > Is there a HOWTO guide floating around about how to best bring in,
 > build, and use bleeding edge GCJ as you suggest (without mashing the
 > rest of the system?)

Yes, it's at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/, but follow the short form below.

 > [I ask in no small measure because today someone else was blasted for
 > asking about 4.0, and told it wasn't even pre-release quality yet]

Blasted?  Gosh.

 > It would be a pleasure to help with the [alpha/beta/whatever] testing if
 > someone could point the way.

Check out the sources as http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html.

Build the whole thing with something like

mkdir ~/build
cd ~/build
/home/aph/gcc/gcc.clean/gcc/configure   --enable-threads --prefix=/home/aph/gcc/install --disable-static --enable-languages=c,c++,java
make
make install

Andrew.