gcj - interpretation of testsuite

[Andreas Tobler]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Petr Salinger writes:
>  > 
>  > I tried to build gcj 4.1 for GNU/kFreeBSD, see
>  > http://glibc-bsd.alioth.debian.org/doc/intro.html
>  > 
>  > It is sufficient to add some detection logic into setup of boehm-gc
>  > and to teach shlibpath.m4 to use GNU ld.so.
>  > 
>  > I ended with results bellow.
>  > Please, could you enlighten me, what is wrong or give me some direction 
>  > where to look.
> 
> Firstly, please read the testcases and look at the log files in the
> testsuite.  The lines beginning with FAIL will tell you what happened.
> 
> The Throw_2 failures probably indicate that singal unwinding doesn't
> work.  See gcc/config/i386/linux-unwind.h for a Linx example of how to
> do it.

The LargeFile failure might happen when your filesystem doesn't support 
Large File Support. I have it here too on HP-UX with disks where LFS is 
not enabled.
You should inform yourself if your file system does support LFS and how 
to enable.

Andreas