can't for daemon problem with gcc/gcj compiled program

Tue Apr 10 16:06:00 GMT 2007

i have compiled/installed gcc3.4.6 in order to compile the gpl software,
pdftk1.4 on solaris8.
pdftk1.4 requires gcj. after jumping through many hoops, i finally
got pdftk to compile then finally link with g++.
the problem i have now is when i run pdftk i get:
Cant fork daemon
Core Dump
here is the stack trace of the core dump:
(/opt/SUNWspro/bin/../WS5.0/bin/sparcv9/dbx) where =>[1] _libc_kill(0x0,
0x6, 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x9f7f20, 0xff035970), at 0xff0a0028
 [2] abort(0xff0bc008, 0xff0bc008, 0x0, 0xffbef628, 0x82f618, 0x0), at
0xff035a54
 [3] GC_abort(0x82fe18, 0x0, 0x5dbb2c, 0x0, 0x140, 0xffbef14c), at
0x5d7588
 [4] GC_thr_init(0x9eacc4, 0x9eae04, 0x0, 0xffbef628, 0x0, 0x917284),
at 0x5dbd90
 [5] GC_init_inner(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x21eec, 0x5d7fbc), at 0x5d7b90
 [6] GC_init(0x9f7f28, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0), at 0x5d7fc4
 [7] GC_init_gcj_malloc(0x0, 0x5cc1f0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x21a68, 0x5cd698), at
0x5d184c
 [8] _Z10_Jv_InitGCv(0x0, 0xff0bc008, 0x0, 0x0, 0x7df278, 0x9f2000), at
0x5cd12c
 [9] _Z16_Jv_CreateJavaVMPv(0xffffffff, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0), at
0x4f7b80
 [10] _Z14JvCreateJavaVMPv(0x0, 0x6cfecc, 0x0, 0x0, 0x2e2f312e, 0x2),
at 0x65c040
 [11] main(0x2, 0xffbef5a4, 0xffbef5b0, 0xa0457c, 0x0, 0x0), at
0x1e14c8
then...
(/opt/SUNWspro/bin/../WS5.0/bin/sparcv9/dbx) stop in GC_thr_init
dbx: warning: 'GC_thr_init' has no debugger info -- will trigger on
first instruction
(2) stop in GC_thr_init
(/opt/SUNWspro/bin/../WS5.0/bin/sparcv9/dbx) run ./1.pdf
Running: pdftk ./1.pdf
(process id 8229)
Reading en_US.ISO8859-15.so.2
stopped in GC_thr_init at 0x5dbcac
0x005dbcac: GC_thr_init : save %sp, -0x78, %sp
(/opt/SUNWspro/bin/../WS5.0/bin/sparcv9/dbx) step
dbx: no srcline info for current function or any of its callers -- step
aborted
dbx: warning: internal handler (-76) made defunct -- could not enable
event NEXTI
i was pointed to this issue by Andrew Haley:
http//gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13212
is this the issue i am encountering?
if so, is there a fix? i noticed a "patch" in the above report, but
it seems more like a listing of diff's of source files. do i need
a newer version of gcc/gcj?
any help would be appreciated.
thank you 
lloyd knight