Joerg Brunsmann pointed this out to me: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-0003/msg00297.html We're interested in porting libgcj as widely as possible. If you're interested in getting Hurd patches into the libgcj distribution, contact me and I'll provide information on what you have to do. It isn't hard (the hard part is filing FSF paperwork). Tom