GCC 3.0 branch: boehm-gc does not work on s390-linux

[Andreas Jaeger]

"Ulrich Weigand" <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>>I noticed that the trunk has a newer version of boehm-gc that's ported
>>for S390.  Since I don't think we can do a merge of boehm-gc to the
>>release branch now, we should leave it the way it is.
>>
>>Hartmut, Ulrich, can you please tell the status of Java on the GCC 3.0
>>branch?  Is it supported for S390?
>>
>>Should we disable gcj completly - or just the broken parts?  I'll
>>continue testing, and will come up with a tested (!) patch later,
>
> I would suggest to disable gcj completely on the branch, there's simply
> too many parts that don't work yet.  It doesn't make much sense IMO to
> have a partially working gcj in the release -- this will just confuse
> people.
>
> However, I'm not familiar enough with the top-level configury to decide
> what's the best way to disable gcj;  do you have a suggestion?

The patch I've send does already disable libgcj completly.  It just
waits for a final review from Alexandre,

Andreas
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