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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: GCC 4.1/gfortran 4.1 on FreeBSD 6/AMD64?
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:19:41PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > I've had no particular problems building either gcc 4.1 or 4.2
> 
> Thanks for your feedback!
> 
> > except that the gcj compiler bombs with an error message about a missing 
> > "spec" file (I have no idea what such a file is supposed to contain).
> 
> Hmm, I thought that GCJ does not fully work on FreeBSD/AMD64 yet?
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25652
> 

Well, if someone in the Java camp would actually commit the
patch in that PR, gcj would have a better shot at working.  

The PR also says the patch is based on a patch from the 
freebsd port.

Looks like a catch-22.

-- 
Steve