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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:59:36 -0500
From:      "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Alexander Kabaev <kan@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.4.6 update in progress
Message-ID:  <20060829215936.36b1d8f1@serene.no-ip.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060830023336.GA56931@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:33:36 -0700, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:29:16PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:04:47 -0700, Steve Kargl
> > <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:50:22PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Incidentally, I've been wondering for the longest time now:
> > > > is/are there any particular reason(s) why we exclude gcj from
> > > > the gcc tree/build? Sure would be a cool thing to have.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 1) It's not needed to build anything in the base system.
> > > 2) It takes a long time to build.
> > > 3) You really want to use the gcc41 or gcc42 port.
> > > 
> > > Of course, IMHO.
> > 
> > I've tried both ports, but gcj fails to run, complaining about a
> > missing "spec" file (I forget the exact filename, maybe
> > "gcjlib.spec" or something similar).  :-(
> > 
> > Is this maybe an arch-specific (amd64) problem?  Or?
> > 
> 
> Contact Gerald.  He is fairly quick at addressing port
> issues.  I don't build the ports because I build GCC
> svn sources for 4.1.x and trunk several times a week.
> I'll note that I don't normally build gjc.  I can try
> a bootstrap tomorrow.

OK, will do.  Thanks.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"



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