Re: GCC 4.0 RC2 Available

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
>
> > RC2 is available here:
> >
> >  ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/prerelease-4.0.0-20050417/
> >
> > As before, I'd very much appreciate it if people would test these bits
> > on primary and secondary platforms, post test results with the
> > contrib/test_summary script, and send me a message saying whether or
> > not there are any regressions, together with a pointer to the results.
>
>
> Bad news, I'm afraid.
>
> On powerpc-darwin8, this fails to bootstrap, with an ICE in libjava (when
> trying to build gnu-xml.o).

I've put that information on the Wiki.  However, as powerpc-darwin is 
not a primary platform, and as Java is not part of the release criteria, 
I'm not going to block the release for this problem.  Hopefully it will 
be fixed for 4.0.1.

> I'll run another build with a patch applied to disable libgcj on
> ppc-darwin, and see how that goes.  I'll also try to work out which
> patch broke it.

Thanks.

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