Re: libgcj

[Jim Franklin <jfranklin@etworld.com>]

Hi Chris,
  Yes, I would very much like to have the patches.

Jim

Chris Lingard wrote:
> 
>    I have ported libgcj to the Hurd.  That is the Java library
> libgcj-2.95.1 from:
> 
> Libgcj 2.95.1 is available from
> 
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/java/libgcj-2.95.1.tar.gz
> 
> and not the Debian package, of the same name, that does Java garbage
> collection.
> 
> The problem with the main C++/Java code was that the following are not
> defined in the Hurd headers:
> 
> MAXPATHLEN
> MAXHOSTNAMELEN
> 
> The main problem is that is has the source of yet another version of
> libgc included; and also installs the program zip.  This needed a lot of
> patching to get it to compile and work;  if anyone is interested in Java
> I can post the patches.
> 
> This build depends on having gcj and c++, from a late version of gcc.
> 
> Chris
> 
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