Bug#321354: Query about gcj status on mips and mipsel

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Barry Hawkins wrote:
> Package: gcc-3.3
> Version: 3.3.6-7
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> GCC Team,
>     Hello from the Debian Java Team!  As part of a request to update the
> source package for antlr, I noticed that its last upload was staying out
> of testing for 120+ days, apparently because of dependency failure.  One
> key dependency I spotted was gcj-3.4, as it was used for the compile to
> native task in antlr.
>     Based on further research and help from my colleague Wolfgang Baer,
> we found that mips and mipsel were disabled at one time due to a bug[0]
> related to libffi not having been ported to mips at the time (June
> 2001).  The bug was subsequently closed, but in the source packages for
> both testing and unstable currently, debian/rules.defs still has mips
> and mipsel disabled:
> 
> debian/rules.d/rules.defs (from 3.3.6-7), Line 191:
> java_no_archs := hurd-i386 mips mipsel freebsd-i386
> 
>     There may be other reasons for mips and mipsel still being disabled;
> if so, I apologize in advance.  I was unable to find anything else in
> the time I had to research this issue.  I have attached a patch for the
> unstable version of the source package.

gcj is currently still disabled because its runtime exceeds the
symbol number limit (16k symbols) binutils is currently able to
handle reliably. I hope I get around to fix it in the next weeks,
but I haven't looked into it yet.


Thiemo