building gcj on Intel Mac OS X 10.4.4 ?

Fri Jan 27 22:39:00 GMT 2006

>>> When attempting to build gcj on a brand new Intel iMac running Mac OS X 
> 10.4.4 I get configure errors.
> I tried both gcc 3.4.5 and the most recent 4.1 snapshot, 20060120.
>> configure complains about a bunch of systems for which the new 
> i386-apple-darwin8.4.1 target is not supported:
>> target-libmudflap target-libffi target-boehm-gc target-zlib target-libjava
> target-libada gnattools target-libgfortran target-libobjc
>> For gcj support, my guess would be that support for at least 
> these is required: target-libffi target-boehm-gc target-zlib target-libjava
>> Is this error due to gcc's configure not understanding Apple's recent move to 
> Intel chips or is there more work required, for example in boehm-gc, to 
> compile an Intel-native gcj on Mac OS X ?
>> Is anyone working on this ?

Libffi has not been ported which is why this is disabled currently, in fact
I think boehm-gc needs to be ported also.
Also this will most likely not be supported until at least 4.2. Also 4.2
already has better support for x86-darwin than does 4.1 or any previous
version.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski