Correction to last message, GC status

Mon Jun 25 19:51:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:

Jeff> What is the advantage of building libgcjgc as a shared lib? Or
Jeff> libzgcj for that matter? We don't have pluggable GC, and
Jeff> libzgcj isn't any different from libz.so (or is it?).
There probably isn't a benefit.
Note that we support `--with-system-zlib', in which case we don't
build our own zlib but instead link against whatever the system
provides. This is intended for use by system integrators (Debian, RH,
whoever).
Once the GC is sufficiently runtime configurable, we can support the
same option for it.
However, you're probably on target if we are still building the
libraries. In that case it is hard to find a reason not to simply use
convenience libraries. I don't know of one.
Tom