gcj, libjava status on darwin.

[Bryce McKinlay]

Adam Megacz wrote:

>Speaking of gcj on Darwin, what ever happened to the issue whereby the
>GC wouldn't work on Darwin because the Darwin libpthread doesn't allow
>you to send a signal to a specific thread?
>

That is still an issue. Currently on Darwin I suspect you can have 
either threads or GC, but not both. This will be fixed when Apple 
release the new version of OS X with fully working pthreads (hopefully 
they will finally fix their ctype.h as well ;-) We could work around the 
problem by making mach thread calls directly, but it would be cleaner 
and less fragile to have Darwin using the linux/posix threads code path.

Also, we don't seem to support shared libraries on Darwin - we need to 
get a newwer version of libtool in order for this to work, I think.

regards

Bryce.