libjava status on Solaris 8/Intel and IRIX 6.5

Mon Mar 18 13:59:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:

Tom> Could you write and test a top-level patch to enable libgcj on this
Tom> platform whenever Java is enabled? I think it is good enough that
Tom> --enable-libgcj should not be required any more.
Rainer> This won't be necessary: ${libgcj} isn't in the toplevel
Rainer> configure.in's noconfigdirs for i?86-*-solaris2*, so it will
Rainer> be enabled by default.
Thanks.
Rainer> mips-sgi-irix6.5	CC=cc
Tom> Likewise.
Rainer> Seems dangerous, given that you need the kernel config
Rainer> trickery to get a reasonable command line length limit.
I'd forgotten about that. I agree, we shouldn't turn this one on by
default. I've made a note on the status page so I won't forget again.
Rainer> Indeed: libjava/testsuite/lib/libjava.exp hardcodes -B$objdir
Rainer> in several places to have gcj find the uninstalled
Rainer> libgcj.spec. This doesn't take multilibs into account. I
Rainer> won't be able to work on a patch now, since I'll be away soon
Rainer> until wednesday.
Ok, thanks.
Tom