[Mingw-users] Fwd: building gcc java

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Forwarding to the mingw-users list for discussion.

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From: JohnT <no...@so...>
Date: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:42 PM
Subject: building gcc java
To: Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>
Cc: JohnT <ib...@us...>


Hello. I\'ve successfully built gcc java (gcj, etc) for gcc
4.7.2 and I think gcc 4.6.3 in Mandriva 2010 Linux. There\'s
a file in an earlier gcc that\'s buggy, for example in the
gcc 4.4.1 release of java files for Mandriva Linux. That
file\'s used in compilation and causes failure to compile
gcj, I think. I don\'t recall the details. The workaround is
to remove the buggy existing gcc java package and then
compile gcc including java. I don\'t know if java compiles by
default or if you have to list the requested languages
--enable-languages=c,c++, etc but if so, include java in
that list. The compilation will use the just-compiled java
files to complete java compilation. This approach ought to
work in a mingw build too---get rid of the old buggy gcc
java first. Thanks for your good work. I don\'t do any
serious programming, just hobby stuff like tinkering with
GNU Chess 3.1 and GNU Chess 4.0 PL 80.

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