From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 01:29:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD7CC16A4DA; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:29:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from centrmmtao01.cox.net (centrmmtao01.cox.net [70.168.83.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2267743D45; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:29:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by centrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060830012923.KYHH24246.centrmmtao01.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:29:23 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([72.200.25.154]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id G1VJ1V0023KVMNG0000000 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:29:18 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k7U1TLiP090203; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:29:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:29:16 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Steve Kargl Message-ID: <20060829202916.04dc8cd1@serene.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20060829230447.GA59838@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20060826212120.GA66604@freefall.freebsd.org> <20060829175022.1a3ac0f6@serene.no-ip.org> <20060829230447.GA59838@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexander Kabaev , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.4.6 update in progress X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:29:29 -0000 On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:04:47 -0700, Steve Kargl 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? -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"