More Tru64 errors

Sun Dec 9 20:06:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年12月10日, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> >Some time ago I'd suggested the patch below for 3.0. It would help
> >prevent these confusing bug reports when a threaded gc isn't available.
>> Unfortunatly it would cause the build to break on such targets, which 
> for 3.0 is arguably worse that building a broken java library.

Good point. I would agree in this case if libgcj were built by default.
(It's not.) Presumably, one who forces --enable-libgcj is prepared for a
failed bootstrap.
> Maybe it should just define GC_LINUX_THREADS (which should really be 
> renamed GC_POSIX_THREADS) and hope that it works?

That might be a good strategy for the trunk.
Jeff