Re: NEWS file for next release

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 13:50, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > * Support for compiling in a separate directory, as an example you may 
> >   cd classpath-0.03; mkdir build; cd build; ../configure; make 
> 
> This didn't work for me on my recent build.

But this was with gcc 3.1 from CVS right? It should work with gcc 3.0.x
now.

> > * Works with Orp 1.0.9 out of the box. Build instructions can be found at 
> >   <http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/doc/orp.html> 
> 
> I'm going to test this today... I found I couldn't build ORP 1.0.9 as
> per their instructions.

Great. Thanks.

Here is something I recently send to the Orp mailinglist when building
1.09. Please let me know if these things are neccessary for your build.

    I tried it out and here are some problems that I had using Debian
    GNU/Linux (unstable/sid) with a 2.4.17 kernel and gcc 2.95.4 (Debian
    prerelease). Hope it helps someone.
    
    - Need to remove the #include <asm/spinlock.h> from
    root_set_enum_ia32.cpp as I had to with the previous version.
    
    - There seems to be a gcc compiler bug that makes the following
    patch
    necessary:
    --- orp-1.0.9/base_natives/common_olv2/mon_enter_exit.cpp
    +++ orp/base_natives/common_olv2/mon_enter_exit.cpp
    @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@
     #else
                    "nop;nop;nop"
     #endif
    -               ::: "memory"
    +               : : : "memory"
            );
     
     #else

Cheers,

Mark