Playing with latest [lib]gcj

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi all,

Thank you very much for all your help with getting the latest (CVS)
version of gcj and libgcj working. Here are some tips if you want to
make this a little easier for others.

- Remove pointer to the gcc-2.95.2 patches from the download page since that
  patch doesn't include inner class support so it cannot be used to compile
  recent versions of libgcj and it doesn't work with libgcj 2.95.x versions.
- Add the contents of the README file from the rpm directory to the download
  page. (It is not immediatly clear that ag-tools-1-4.i686.rpm contains gcj
  and libgcj if you don't know who 'ag' is. Sorry Anthony Green.) Add a note
  on setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/ag/lib. And tell that on Debian
  you can use alien --to-deb to get a .deb file.
- Add a pointer to the build snapshots page on the download page.
- Mention that you should build both c++ and java if using --enable-languages
  when building from cvs since (lib)gcj needs the new g++ compiler.
- Add a note to the FAQ about the __dso_handle problem with broken bin-utils
  on Debian GNU/Linux Potato. (After configuring gcc, remove the definition
  of HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN from auto-host.h before typeing make.
- Mentioned that you should look at the output of gcj -v to see if you run
  the correct versions and that the spec points to the correct verion of
  BOTH gcj and libgcj. (Is there a way to see the libgcj version?)
- Include a HACKING file in the libgcj directory with all this information

If you want I can make patches to the webpages.

Cheers,

Mark

P.S. Maybe someone could try to convince CodeSourcery to include gcj in their
     pre-build CVS gcc binaries.