gcj/227: compile error prims.cc

[Bryce McKinlay]

The following reply was made to PR gcj/227; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
To: David Kidd <dkidd@gwn.com.au>
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj/227: compile error prims.cc
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:44:44 +1200

 David Kidd wrote:
 
 > Thankyou for the quick response, much appreciated.
 > gcc & libgcj are versions 2.95.1.
 > I am not sure how to tell the version of (g)libc.
 > There are several version numbers in the lib dir.
 
 Please send me the output of ls -l /lib/libc*
 
 I think that you may be using the old libc5 rather than glibc (libc6).
 
 Newwer linux kernels define a "struct sigcontext" in their headers.
 glibc has the following in its sigcontext.h:
 
 #ifndef sigcontext_struct
 /* Kernel headers before 2.1.1 define a struct sigcontext_struct, but
    we need sigcontext.  */
 # define sigcontext_struct sigcontext
 
 As a workaround, you could try changing all the references to
 "sigcontext_struct" in libgcj/libjava/include/i386-signal.h to
 "sigcontext". Please let me know if it works if you try this.
 
 Its possible that there are other issues that prevent libgcj from
 working correctly on old libc's - the best solution may be to upgrade to
 a glibc based linux distibution.
 
 regards
 
   [ bryce ]