libgcj fail to build on Mac OSX

Wed Sep 10 17:32:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年9月10日, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> Jeff Sturm wrote:
>> > On 2003年9月10日, Andreas Tobler wrote:
> >
> >>>/Users/bothner/GNU/gcc.head/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/natSharedLibLoader.cc:21:19:
> >>>dlfcn.h: No such file or directory
> >>
> >>You need this package installed:
> >>
> >>http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/dlcompat/
> >
> >
> > Surely it'd be better to have an autoconf test for dlfcn.h? Otherwise
> > many Darwin users are bound to be surprised as Per was.
>> Maybe, but this is not very urgent from my point of view. gcc-3.4 is
> development, it is not widely spread on the apple side and people who
> want to play with can ask. Per had his answer within 14 minutes :)

My opinion isn't official, but GCC doesn't seem to treat other targets
that way. If there is a known cause of build failure, it may be
preventable with an autoconf test, else it can be documented in a PR (so
it isn't forgotten before release) and/or explained in host-specific
installation notes, i.e.
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#powerpc-*-darwin*
> There is also another reason I don't think it is that urgent. I want to
> wait for panther (Mac OS-X 10.3) and see how gcc 3.4 and friend works
> before I spend some more sweat on it.

You're not saying nobody will attempt to build GCC with an older release?
Jeff