Mainline Is Busted for Java

Wed Apr 7 12:34:00 GMT 2004

On Apr 7, 2004, at 08:26, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Andrew Pinski thinks this is because of Caroline Tice's
>>> recent patch:
>>>> This is weird. I mean, how come the patch was checked in if the build
>> failed. Anyway, I recommend we give Caroline a little while to fix
>> it, if indeed it is caused by her patch.

Because it looks like she did not test by building libjava which is 
enabled
by default on PPC Darwin by the way, so there should be no excuse for 
this
one.
> FWIW, I just successfully bootstrapped (c,c++,java) on
> i686-pc-linux-gnu by reverting Caroline's patch:
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-03/msg02101.html
>> in my local tree.
>> So Andrew (Pinski) seems to be correct in his conjecture.

That is because I finally reverted the patch also and did a bootstrap
my self when I figured out the problem.
Also note the problem is being tracked by PR 14874.
> Ranjit.
>> PS: "make new-bootstrap" has been producing a gcj that
> fails spectacularly on i686-pc-linux-gnu. What *is* this
> make target for?

new-bootstrap is the new top level bootstrap target in the
Makefiles, it is experimental at this point.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski