porting libjava to FreeBSD

Sat Sep 25 11:39:00 GMT 1999

> I'm trying to make a port of libjava (to give some meaning to the
> currently useless gcj installed by the egcs port on -stable, for
> example). It also seems to provide A LOT faster java compiler...

I'm quite interested in this. However, would you be willing to base your
work on the either the FreeBSD gcc-devel port, or on the GCC "head"
branch snapshot? I am pretty sure major additions like this would not be
accepted by Cygnus/GCC in the 2.95.x branch. And I don't look forward to
trying to port such stuff to the newer GCC code base, which is where the
future is.
> Any suggestions on what should be used on FreeBSD instead? Or, perhaps,
> this is not going to work and a new freebsd_threads.c needs to be
> written for libjava? Thanks,

There have been some thread configuration changes in the GCC development
branch. I should have an updated ``gcc-devel'' port working and
committed within the week.
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-- David (obrien@NUXI.com)