From 46fc709d6728c9e387c1d3ec926371a8965b8952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Loren J. Rittle" Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:35:20 +0000 Subject: * doc/install.texi (*-*-freebsd*): Update. From-SVN: r51384 --- gcc/doc/install.texi | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'gcc/doc') diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 380b635..a7dd941 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -2048,7 +2048,7 @@ A port to the AT&T DSP1610 family of processors. The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} is known to work unless otherwise specified in any per-architecture notes. However, binutils -2.11 is known to improve overall testsuite results. +2.11 or greater is known to improve overall testsuite results. For FreeBSD 1, FreeBSD 2 or any mutant a.out versions of FreeBSD 3: All configuration support and files as shipped with GCC 2.95 are still in @@ -2066,10 +2066,20 @@ of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC. In particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by default. However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good -results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3 and 5-CURRENT@. - -At this time, @option{--enable-threads} is not compatible with -@option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@. +results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@. + +In principle, @option{--enable-threads} is now compatible with +@option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@. However, it has only been built +and tested on i386-*-freebsd4.5 and alpha-*-freebsd5.0 and important +test suite failures remain. Multi-threaded boehm-gc (required for +libjava) exposes severe threaded signal-handling bugs on FreeBSD before +4.5-RELEASE. The alpha port may not fully bootstrap without some manual +intervention: gcjh will crash with a floating-point exception while +generating @file{java/lang/Double.h} (just copy the version built on +i386-*-freebsd* and rerun the top-level gmake with no arguments and it +should properly complete the bootstrap). Other CPU architectures +supported by FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at +the very least, both boehm-gc and libffi. @html

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