Re: I Built GCC/GCJ 3.3 under MSYS/MingW! Woo hoo!

[Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>]

Hi Ranjit,

>> I've managed to build GCC/GCJ 3.3 under MSYS 1.0.9 / MingW GCC 3.2.
>
>This is great...

In my haste, I forgot to give you due credit for your groundwork. I've
remedied this and rereleased the fun pak....

>> but it's a glimpse of what things could be like. The only major
>> hack is in jcf-io.c, but it is replacable with the right thing
>> to do. None of the hacks compromise the integrity of the source.
>
>Maybe, but "special casing" out "image.class", "event.class", etc.
>just won't do. We somehow must find a better way of dealing with
>this beast.

I never make a hack without first mentally mapping out the correct
way to do things, which in this case, is ensuring that the filename
they want to open is the correct case. I've alluded to this in a
previous post:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q1/msg00622.html

Thanks again for all your help and guidance. I'm counting on more
of the same in the days to come :).

-- Mohan
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