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Re: More Tru64 errors



On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> >Some time ago I'd suggested the patch below for 3.0.  It would help
> >prevent these confusing bug reports when a threaded gc isn't available.
> 
> Unfortunatly it would cause the build to break on such targets, which 
> for 3.0 is arguably worse that building a broken java library.

Good point.  I would agree in this case if libgcj were built by default.
(It's not.)  Presumably, one who forces --enable-libgcj is prepared for a
failed bootstrap.

> Maybe it should just define GC_LINUX_THREADS (which should really be 
> renamed GC_POSIX_THREADS) and hope that it works?

That might be a good strategy for the trunk.

Jeff


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