Am Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:10:00 +0200 schrieb Jan de Groot :

A new compiler snapshot has been uploaded to testing. Lots of new things, many bugfixes, etc. The most important thing here is that gcc-gcj uses eclipse-ecj to compile itself and all programs compiled with gcj. This makes gcc-gcj completely java 5.0 compatible. This package also includes a web plugin, which is far from completed though. This is important for AMD64 users, as Sun doesn't provide one in the official jre package.

As a downsides of all these patches, libgcc_s.so now exports a GCC_4.2.0 symbol that wasn't in older releases. Be very careful with this one when building packages for extra/current or community with these compilers, as binaries that link in this versioned symbol will fail to run on older libgcc_s.so libraries.

If all is fine with these new compilers, I'll move them into current and extra in a short while.

Happy compiling!

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hm. i think it's not worth to risk any breakage at this moment. gcc4.2.0 has reached rc2 and shouldn't be that far away. i dislike taking over that much patches from another distribution just to make it right now work with the backported gcj-ecj. i suggest to wait for gcc4.2.0 release to ship that with java5 support. should be less risky and will probably work without that damn long patchlist. Andy