GCJ 4.9.3 on mips64el-linux failing to build Ant.

Thu Oct 29 12:08:00 GMT 2015

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> It looks to me like gcj is non-functional. Are you building GCC 4.9.3?
> Please run the gcj test suite (make check-target-libjava) to see if it
> is broken.

Yes, I built GCJ as a variant of GCC 4.9.3 (disabling all other
languages but Java). Surprisingly, â€œmake check-target-libjavaâ€ passes
on MIPS, but GCJ is not working as can be seen when attempting to build
Ant.
Hereâ€™s the complete log that I get when building GCJ 4.9.3 and running
the tests:
 http://hydra.gnu.org/build/758888/log/raw

The beginning of the test phase is marked by â€œstarting phase `check'â€.
I donâ€™t see anything suspicious in the test output.
Hereâ€™s the latest failing build of Ant on MIPS:
 http://hydra.gnu.org/build/758915/log/raw
The errors are the same as before:
 1. ERROR in /tmp/nix-build-ant-1.9.4.drv-0/apache-ant-1.9.4/src/main/org/apache/tools/bzip2/BlockSort.java (at line 121)
 QSORT_STACK_SIZE < FALLBACK_QSORT_STACK_SIZE
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 QSORT_STACK_SIZE cannot be resolved to a variable
 ...
~~ Ricardo