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

[Robert Schuster]

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Hi,
this was accepted on IRC.

Committed.

cu
Robert

Robert Schuster wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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> 
> Index: INSTALL
> ===================================================================
> 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
> 
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