Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.4.6 update in progress

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:29:16PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:04:47 -0700, Steve Kargl
> <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:50:22PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > > 
> > > Incidentally, I've been wondering for the longest time now: is/are
> > > there any particular reason(s) why we exclude gcj from the gcc
> > > tree/build? Sure would be a cool thing to have.
> > > 
> > 
> > 1) It's not needed to build anything in the base system.
> > 2) It takes a long time to build.
> > 3) You really want to use the gcc41 or gcc42 port.
> > 
> > Of course, IMHO.
> 
> I've tried both ports, but gcj fails to run, complaining about a
> missing "spec" file (I forget the exact filename, maybe
> "gcjlib.spec" or something similar).  :-(
> 
> Is this maybe an arch-specific (amd64) problem?  Or?
> 

Contact Gerald.  He is fairly quick at addressing port
issues.  I don't build the ports because I build GCC
svn sources for 4.1.x and trunk several times a week.
I'll note that I don't normally build gjc.  I can try
a bootstrap tomorrow.

-- 
Steve