[arch-dev-public] New toolchain stuff in testing

[Jan de Groot]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 12:28 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Am Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:45:11 +0200
> schrieb Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> 
> > Have fun testing this new toolchain, please report any bugs you find
> > in flyspray.
> 
> i haven't uploaded new gcc-gcj for a good reason. first i wanted to
> make sure we can still compile and run OpenOffice.
> 
> and so i have already found out that the new binutils/glibc from
> testing have horrible issues handling gnujava. calling OOo wizards eats
> up tons of memory and almost freezes the system. same when trying to
> compile OOo.
> 
> i will look for a fix. so be warned not to use new bintuils/glibc
> together with any java stuff right now.
> 
> Andy

Couldn't reproduce this on i686, Openoffice and its java wizards load a
bit faster and I see no big memory issues on my laptop.