Re: libgcj/60

[Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/60; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca
Cc: tromey@cygnus.com, java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libgcj/60
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:14:57 -0800 (PST)

 >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Hendricks <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca> writes:
 
 Kevin> Does anyone ever build these snapshots on Linux or Linux PPC?
 
 I don't ever look at the snapshots.  However, I build from cvs on x86
 Linux every day.
 
 Kevin> - in libjava/include/  java-array.h is missing but it is referenced by
 Kevin> java/lang/String.h , etc
 Kevin>   (to work around this I made a sym link to ../gcj/array.h  (is this right?)
 
 This means you are using the 2.95.1 gcjh with the CVS libgcj.
 Unfortunately, you can't do this.  There is a patch available (I saw a
 post about it this week, or late last week, to java-discuss) to turn
 2.95.1 into something resembling the current cvs gcc.
 
 Kevin> - for some reason the powerpc builds are defaulting to
 Kevin> msoft-float even if I specify not to in configure
 
 I don't know about this.
 I can't look at it for a while yet.
 
 Kevin> - in boehm-gc/misc.c thre is a reference to GC_init_linuxppc()
 Kevin> which used to exist in os_dep.c but does not anymore.  I didn't
 Kevin> know whether to copy it out of an old os_dep.c or simply
 Kevin> comment it out.  I commented it out (is that right?)
 
 Yep, thanks.  I checked in this fix.
 
 Kevin> - after installation you can get a message about a malformed
 Kevin> spec file after 216 characters.  I tracked this down to the
 Kevin> very last line of libgcj.spec which simply has jc1: and nothing
 Kevin> else.  I simply removed the jc1: and then these error messages
 Kevin> went away.
 
 This is related to the 2.95.1 thing, too.  Your fix is fine.
 
 Kevin> Program received signal SIGSEGV in GC_mark_from_mark_stack() in
 Kevin> boehm-gc/mark.c: 161
 
 Bummer.
 I should be looking at Linux PPC builds pretty soon.  Until I actually
 start, though, I can't spend any time on it.  So you're on your own
 for now, I'm afraid :-(
 
 T