Re: [tcljava-user] building with gcc 4.1?

[Rob R. <rr...@fu...>]

Scott Serr wrote:
> It IS gcc 4.  I built gcc 3.4.6 (on SLED 10) in /usr/local/bin and built
> Tcl and TclBlend with that....  it worked fine.
>
> I also tried it on Ubuntu.  Ubuntu comes with 4 gccs...  3.3, 3.4, 4.0,
> 4.1...  3.4 works fine, the default of 4.1 doesn't.
>
> I can only imagine that JNI has problems with the mix of Java compiled
> with 3.X and the Tcl stuff compiled with 4.X.
>
> Hope this helps people.  I'm sure it will all work someday, but I'm not
> sure it will work before Java (from Sun) is compiled with gcc 4?  Other
> probably understand all this better...
>   
One could always build the VM and compiler from scratch with gcc 4 now 
that Java is open source: :-)
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