Dan McGhee wrote:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Dan McGhee wrote these words on 01/01/06 15:05 CST:
I'm trying to build JDK-1.5.0_05 using SVN. I just build LFS 6.1 on
my laptop and have gcc-3.4.3 installed.
I'm not sure anyone has tried this combination before. I can't
remember if DJ worked with this or started right in with GCC-4
when he was first testing JDK-1.5.
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Since I have zero, zip, nada knowledge about troubleshooting compilers,
I'll go with the stable version. Maybe, DJ will come up with something
and then I'll try it. Thanks again.
BTW. Happy new year to you and all on the list.
Dan
Sorry for the late reply, and happy new year to you. To answer the
history question, I had moved to gcc4 with the original 1.5.0 SCSL
release. I've never built any of the update releases with gcc-3.4.x. I
also cannot even attempt a guess wether the gcc-4.x fixes will work with
gcc-3.4. But if I were you, I'd use the precompiled version anyway
unless you are just dead set to compile _only_ from source, and if
that's what you want, then there are options.
The first option is to compare the troubled code with the changes made
in the gcc-4.x patch, but this can be difficult because of changes to
some header file that would seem completely unrelated if you don't know
how to follow the code. The gcc error message will tell you what you
need to know, but not always the exact location.
The second option is to try the newer patch set outright. I have no
clue wether it will work. I can only say that it might work as most of
the problems with gcc4 are related to the less forgiving syntax. Short
of CPU time, it certainly can't hurt to try it. But, even if it
compiles, the real results won't be known until it's been used and
abused for some time, which is not exactly what you want if you intend
this system to be used. :-) I wish I could be a little more definitave.
Third, you can check out gentoo, sourcemage and other build from source
distros...in fact this may be the best way to go about it.
Again, I'll restate, my first suggestion is to use the precompiled
version. I usually do because of the time lapse between binary and
source releases. I can only recall one problem with using the binary
since the very first release (javaws was broken, but fixed in the source
build and in update 2 IIRC, and that was an NPTL problem).
Hope that helps a little bit anyway.
-- DJ Lucas
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