[cp-patches] [RFC] INSTALL - GCJ 3.x is unsupported

[Robert Schuster]

Hi,
is everyone OK with the changes to INSTALL. Especially recommending Jikes?


 2005-09-07  Robert Schuster  <address@hidden>

     * INSTALL: Mention that GCJ4 is now mandatory.

cu
Robert

Index: INSTALL
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RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -r1.31 INSTALL
--- INSTALL     2 Sep 2005 03:44:12 -0000       1.31
+++ INSTALL     6 Sep 2005 22:50:17 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Installing GNU Classpath - Last updated: August 31, 2005
+Installing GNU Classpath - Last updated: September 7, 2005
 
 First, this is a development release only! Unless you are interested in
 active development and debugging, or just like running random alpha code,
@@ -31,11 +31,16 @@
        --with-jikes, --with-gcj, --with-ecj or --with-kjc as argument to
        configure; the present default is gcj.
 
-        - GCJ 3.3+ (part of the GNU GCC package).
+        - GCJ 4.0+ (part of the GNU GCC package).
         - IBM jikes 1.19+.  
         - Eclipse Compiler for Java 3.1+
         - The kjc compiler is supported with configure but we have
           been unable to successfully compile with it.
+
+       IMPORTANT: Versions of GCJ which are earlier than 4.0 contain
+       bugs which make it impossible to compile the class library and
+       are *not* supported any more. If you are stuck on a system where
+       GCC 3.x is the system compiler we recommend using Jikes.
 
        For building the gtk+ AWT peer JNI native libraries, the following
        are required unless --disable-gtk-peer is used as an argument to