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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]