[Q] can't build libgcj on Solaris 2.6

Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
Fri Dec 10 08:28:00 GMT 1999


>> The initial patch was just wrong.  I checked in a fixed version.  Can
>> you try it?  I don't remember if Solaris has recursive mutexes or not.
>> Does it?

Joerg> Unfortunately the patch doesn't fix my wait/nofify problem. 

Joerg> I looked into Solaris Answerbook and it seems that Solaris does
Joerg> indeed have recursive mutexes.

Then the patch won't affect you.

Joerg> The problem still remains that "pthread_cond_waiting"-threads
Joerg> aren't awakened when they are notified. I checked if one return
Joerg> value of either _Jv_PthreadCheckMonitor or pthread_cond_signal
Joerg> in _Jv_CondNotify is an error code, but they are both ok. Can
Joerg> someone give me a hint where I can continue debugging?

Not really.  Make sure the threads agree about which mutex & cond var
is in use.  Maybe there is some confusion there.

T


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