building gcj on Intel Mac OS X 10.4.4 ?

Fri Jan 27 23:14:00 GMT 2006

At least the upstream version of the gc does not have Darwin/X86
support, though there seem to be pieces for one in the source code.
Those pieces seem to be entirely untested.
Hans 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:java-owner@gcc.gnu.org] 
> On Behalf Of Andrew Pinski
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: andi@osafoundation.org
> Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: building gcj on Intel Mac OS X 10.4.4 ?
>>> > 
> > 
> > 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
>