Re: gcj/java status

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

Steve Langasek writes:
 > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:18:35AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
 > > Please consider moving the following packages to testing:
 > 
 > >  - arm: debian only port, not yet submitted to upstream; runtime is
 > >    currently non-functional, testsuite shows failures for all
 > >    interpreter test cases.
 > >    #388505: segfaults in gcj-dbtool-4.1, not addressed.
 > 
 > > Going back to gcj-4.0 for arm could be an alternative, at least simple
 > > programs did compile to native code and run sucessfully. The testsuite
 > > in 4.0 shows over 100 test failures, in 4.1 over 700. Reverting back
 > > to 4.0 for arm would mean to use an older java-gcj-compat for arm as
 > > well. Another alternative would be to replace the gcj runtime with
 > > kaffe, using patches from upstream CVS (suggested by Dalibor Topic).
 > 
 > > For etch, I currently don't have the time and hardware resource to
 > > spend work on arm.
 > 
 > Could Andrew be correct that this is a sign of an improved testsuite,
 > not a regression in the functionality for arm?
 > 
 > A build failure on arm is also the only thing keeping this updated version
 > of gcj-4.1 from being hinted into testing, though that seems to have been an
 > OOD error on the buildd; given back now.

Is no-one interested in actually fixing this?  We could, for the first
time, get gcj running properly on ARM.

Andrew.