Many Failures In libjava Testsuite!

Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
Tue Nov 30 23:22:00 GMT 2004


Tom Tromey wrote:

>Bryce> I looked at this but wasn't able to come up with a clean fix
>Bryce> yet. So, for now, I've reverted the patches.
>
>I think the very best fix would be in autoconf.  That might be a hard
>sell, as I recall Akim purposely implemented things this way --
>automake had already been through this and provided a way to turn off
>the defines it added.
>
>There's always adding #undefs to libjava/include/boehm-gc.h.  This is
>gross, but we don't use those defines, are unlikely to in the future.
>  
>

Yes, I think that should be an acceptable fix for now, especially since 
we should only need to do it in one place. It would be really nice if 
libjava had no compile-time dependencies on the GC's configuration, 
however - ie GC_malloc() should call the right version depending on how 
the GC is configured, that way libjava wouldn't have to include any 
configuration from the GC.

Regards

Bryce



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