From: Loren J. Rittle Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:31:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * doc/install.texi (*-*-freebsd*): Update with known status. X-Git-Tag: releases/gcc-3.4.0~7662 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4e7d312cd684d267e661faa08db332ddf347856;p=thirdparty%2Fgcc.git * doc/install.texi (*-*-freebsd*): Update with known status. From-SVN: r64870 --- diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 791d08cbf651..273f30afa6a9 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2003-03-25 Loren James Rittle + + * doc/install.texi (*-*-freebsd*): Update with known status. + 2003-03-21 Jason Merrill PR optimization/10171 diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index f5d1dca4e29b..2a9ddd198997 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -2078,22 +2078,19 @@ 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, 4.4, 4.5-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@. +results on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@. In the past, known to +bootstrap and check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, +4.3, 4.4, 4.5-STABLE@. In principle, @option{--enable-threads} is now compatible with @option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@. However, it has only been built -and tested on @samp{i386-*-freebsd4.5} and @samp{alpha-*-freebsd5.0}. +and tested on @samp{i386-*-freebsd[45]} and @samp{alpha-*-freebsd[45]}. The static library may be incorrectly built (symbols are missing at link time). There is a rare timing-based startup hang (probably involves an assumption about the thread library). 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: @command{gcjh} will crash with a floating-point exception while -generating @file{java/lang/Double.h} (just copy the version built on -@samp{i386-*-freebsd*} and rerun the top-level @command{gmake} with no -arguments and it -should properly complete the bootstrap). Other CPU architectures +4.5-RELEASE@. Other CPU architectures supported by FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at the very least, both boehm-gc and libffi.