Release stuff

Tue Mar 12 09:59:00 GMT 2002

I'm trying to track our state so we can try to have meaningful input
into the 3.1 release process.
Here are the PRs I think we must fix:
5876 jc1 crashes when targeting mingw32
 I believe this is the problem we think was introduced by my
 builtin function patch. Is that right?
5879 throwing exceptions causes SEGV in GCJ-compiled code
 Regression introduced in December
5898 build failure in libgcj due to a internal error
 Recent build regression
5912 gcj -R doesn't work for mingw32 cross compiler
 I think we have a patch for this.
 We want mingw32 in this release
5923 gcj -C generates incorrect bytecode
 This is probably a regression, though I'm not certain
5924 gij fails with current link line
 Definitely a regression
This list has grown a lot in the last week :-(
Here are the platforms I think we currently support.
x86 Linux
alpha Linux
IA-64 Linux
PPC Linux
Sparc Solaris
 I don't know what releases
MIPS Irix
 I don't know what releases; building here might be a little difficult
x86 Mingw32
 Only works as a target, not a host.
 Is still incomplete (at least Process does not work yet)
If you think there is a missing PR, please tell me. If there is a
critical bug that isn't in a PR, point me to the bug report and I will
file a PR.
If you think there is a missing platform that either worked in the
last release or that has been added since then, tell me.
Once we've got a final list I'll make sure Mark knows about it. Some
of the PRs above aren't really "ours". They were caused by non-Java
changes. I plan to work on the Java-related PRs (though of course
work might intervene unpredictably).
Tom