gcj build problems (again)

Tue Nov 14 16:50:00 GMT 2000

Hi! I guess the crux of the problem is bootstrapping one of the egcs
snapshots doesn't produce a trustworthy gcj compiler. Maybe when gcc-3.0
is stable these problems will go away.......
Peace......
Tom
Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>@sources.redhat.com on 11/15/2000
05:23:48 AM
Sent by: java-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
To: Oskar Liljeblad <osk@hem.passagen.se>
cc: java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj build problems (again)
Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, can you try to apply the seemingly stupid patch?
>> Amazing, the patch did it. No more compilation problems (or so
> I thought...) Is there some optimization bug in gcc, or am I
> totally missing something in the patch? :)

If that patch works, it probably means that your compiler is being
miscompiled. I wouldn't trust it. Try a newer snapshot or rebuild the
compiler with a known stable compiler (and don't use "make bootstrap").
I've built the compiler with both RH 6.2's egcs 1.1.2 and RH 7.0's 2.96
and it works in both cases.
> This program fails to compile with gcj 20001106:
>> $ cat Drawable.java
> class Drawable {
> static String foo = "bar";
>
Works for me with a 20001113 from cvs. See above.
regards
 [ bryce ]