Java symbol mangling

Wed Jan 31 12:44:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

>> I guess not all patches are tested building the Java bits, which is
>> understandable if they're produced on certain platforms we don't
>> yet support.

Gerald> This is a real problem and it is kind of a devil's circuit: I,
Gerald> for example, after having had a couple of Java-related
Gerald> problems, am tempted simply disabling building Java again on
Gerald> my platforms. Which, of course, would be a bad thing!
It is a direct result of not having Java configury enabled by default
for platforms where it works. This last week, when in theory the tree
is supposed to be stabilizing a bit, we've had a couple Java breakages
which could have easily been avoided had people actually been building
it.
Tom