Please reenable GCJ on mips

Thiemo Seufer ths at networkno.de
Thu Oct 6 07:01:00 UTC 2005


Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I notice that GCJ (& company) are not built on mips or mipsel.
> What I can't figure out is why.
> 
> GCJ is supported for mips*-*-linux* (except for mips64*-*-linux*, which
> is not supported) upstream in the 4.0 series, and I couldn't find any
> reported bugs on problems specific to it.

The toolchain (more specifically: ld) can't handle the gcj runtime
build yet. Btw, ghc triggers the same problem, there were several
reports filed for the various instances of this bug.


Thiemo



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