add iRATE to done with gcj

Tue Oct 7 07:19:00 GMT 2003

Hi Taras,
By the way, congratulations on iRATE and its large user base.
>Yes I did beg for Thread.interrupt(). However at the time we needed to 
>make a release that would timeout quickly on blocking io. 

Can you elaborate on this? The current MinGW Thread.interrupt() doesn't
interruped blocking I/O; neither does Sun's JVM.
>If you are interested, there is another strange bug in gcj that's making 
>irate impossible for some people. System.getProperty("user.home") 
>returns c:\username at least on some win2k computers instead of the 
>C:\documents and settings\whatever\windows\likes.

Is this in bugzilla? (Can't remember - though know I've heard this before.)
>Could you also put up those magnificent crosscompiler build scripts on 
>your website? When I have some time, I'd like to rebuild gcj with the 
>latest cvs.

Good luck. I'd like to do this too. (I've been getting bootstrapping errors
on jv-convert for several days now where cc1 segfaults.) I'm still trying to
put out a "stable" MinGW 3.4 build. :(
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