You may have seen this already; if so, apologies. I think this is great news for Java/Linux users! Linux is one of the reference platforms for GCC Java support; see the website for details about which CPUs behave right today. - Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandre Petit-Bianco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:46 PM Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Gcc 3.0 released. Features Java language support. > > The GCC team announced that GCC 3.0 was officially released this Monday > morning: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-06/msg00994.html > > It is the first gcc release to officially and seamlessly provide > support for the Java language. > > sources.redhat.com and our primarily mirror ftp.freesoftware.com are > being severely hit at this time and you might want to grab your > snapshots from secondary mirrors (http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html, see > the attached document if you still can't access this webpage.) > > On behalf of all those who care about Java, we would like to thank all > our contributors. For example, fully integrating Java with the GCC > tree and making it compliant with the GCC 3.0 release criteria > required a lot of work that regular Java contributors and main GCC > contributors very gracefully undertook. If you ever used the Gnu Java > toolchain, reported bugs against it, submitted patches, sent > suggestions, ported and/or tested it on new platforms and more > generally hacked on it; this thank you note goes directly to you. > > Being one of the languages of the 3.0 release is a lot to be excited > about. It will improve the visibility of our work which will lead to > more contributions, bug reports, testing work and suggestions for > improvements. > > And remember, if it's not free, it doesn't exist! > > ./A > >
GCC mirror sites These sites mirror the GCC ftp directory directly. The official gcc.gnu.org server is in California in the US. Please let us know if you are mirroring the GCC pages so we can note it here! If you want to mirror the whole GCC CVS repository, ask about CVSup access. * Australia: mirror.aarnet.edu.au * Austria: gd.tuwien.ac.at * Belgium (Ghent) (releases only, no snapshots): chardonnay.elis.rug.ac.be * Brasil (releases only, no snapshots): ftp.softaplic.com.br * Brasil (releases only, no snapshots): ftp.unicamp.br * Canada (releases only, no snapshots): ftp.crc.ca * China (Hong Kong): ftp.foruto.com * Czech Republic: sunsite.mff.cuni.cz * Finland: ftp.funet.fi * France (releases only, no snapshots): ftp.ilog.fr * France (releases only, no snapshots): ftp.lip6.fr * France (Brittany, releases only, no snapshots): ftp.irisa.fr * France (Versailles): ftp.uvsq.fr * France: ftp.grolier.fr * Germany (Berlin): ftp.fu-berlin.de, thanks to Felix von Leitner! * Germany: ftp.gwdg.de * Germany (releases only, no snapshots): ftp.uni-trier.de * Germany: ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de * Greece: ftp.ntua.gr, * Japan: ftp.dti.ad.jp, thanks to IWAIZAKO Takahiro! * Japan: ftp.eos.hokudai.ac.jp * Japan: ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp * Japan: ftp.shonan.bunkyo.ac.jp * Japan: ftp.iij.ad.jp * Japan: ring.aist.go.jp * Japan: ring.etl.go.jp * Japan: ring.crl.go.jp * Japan: core.ring.gr.jp * Japan: ftp.ring.gr.jp * Korea (Seoul): linux.sarang.net * Nijmegen, Netherlands: ftp.nluug.nl, thanks to Jan Cristiaan van Winkel! * Norway: ftp.pvv.ntnu.no * Poland: ftp.task.gda.pl * Poland (Warsaw): sunsite.icm.edu.pl * Poland (Lodz): ftp.fic.uni.lodz.pl * Portugal: ftp.lca.uevora.pt * Romania: ftp.lbi.ro, thanks to Surdu Bogdan! * Russia: ftp.nc.orc.ru * Russia: ftp.chg.ru * Russia (Moscow, no snapshots): linux.ihep.su * South Africa: ftp.sun.ac.za * Sweden: ftp.sunet.se * Sweden: ftp.lysator.liu.se * Sweden: ftp.chl.chalmers.se * Taiwan: ftp1.sinica.edu.tw * Taiwan: ftp.edu.tw * Taiwan: ftp.nctu.edu.tw * Turkey (Izmir): gcc.deu.edu.tr * UK: ftp.mirror.ac.uk * UK: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk * US (California): ftp.freesoftware.com * US (California): ftp.yggdrasil.com If you wish to host a new mirror site, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include the name of the server, the path to the GCC mirror and the country/city where the mirror is located. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are also other ways to contact the FSF. These pages are maintained by The GCC team. Please send comments on these web pages and GCC to [EMAIL PROTECTED], send other questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright (C) Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Last modified 2001-05-04.