How to do bootstrap build on OSX to get gcj?

Wed Sep 20 19:13:00 GMT 2006

On 2006年9月20日, Mike Purdy wrote:
> I would like to build the sources on OSX to get gcj. I've downloaded 
> gcc-core-4.1.1.tar.bz2, gcc-g++-4.1.1.tar.bz2, and 
> gcc-java-4.1.1.tar.bz2 and then un-tarred them. Not sure at this point 
> what to do to configure the build and then invoke the bootstrap build.
>> Anyone know how I should proceed?

FYI, I've never succeeded in building gcj using the modular tarballs 
myself, and I don't think many people test that method. You're probably 
better off using full tarball (gcc-4.1.1.tar.bz2). Also note that the 
darwin-i386 build does not work without significant manual effort.
The following should work on PPC:
 $ tar xjf gcc-4.1.1.tar.bz2
 $ mkdir gcc-build
 $ cd gcc-build
 $ ../gcc-4.1.1/configure --enable-bootstrap \
 	--enable-languages=c,c++,java --enable-libgcj
 $ make && make install
Hope that helps.
 - Joel