* doc/install.texi (*-*-freebsd*): Update.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@51384 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 15820db..a68c4b4 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-03-26  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+       * doc/install.texi (*-*-freebsd*): Update.
+
 2002-03-26  Richard Henderson  <rth@redhat.com>
 
        * expr.h (ADD_PARM_SIZE): Cast INC to ssizetype.

diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index 380b635..a7dd941 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -2048,7 +2048,7 @@ A port to the AT&T DSP1610 family of processors.
 
 The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} is known to work unless
 otherwise specified in any per-architecture notes.  However, binutils
-2.11 is known to improve overall testsuite results.
+2.11 or greater is known to improve overall testsuite results.
 
 For FreeBSD 1, FreeBSD 2 or any mutant a.out versions of FreeBSD 3: All
 configuration support and files as shipped with GCC 2.95 are still in
@@ -2066,10 +2066,20 @@ of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC.  In
 particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by default.
 However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system
 compiler with this release.  Known to bootstrap and check with good
-results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3 and 5-CURRENT@.
-
-At this time, @option{--enable-threads} is not compatible with
-@option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@.
+results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@.
+
+In principle, @option{--enable-threads} is now compatible with
+@option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@.  However, it has only been built
+and tested on i386-*-freebsd4.5 and alpha-*-freebsd5.0 and important
+test suite failures remain.  Multi-threaded boehm-gc (required for
+libjava) exposes severe threaded signal-handling bugs on FreeBSD before
+4.5-RELEASE.  The alpha port may not fully bootstrap without some manual
+intervention: gcjh will crash with a floating-point exception while
+generating @file{java/lang/Double.h} (just copy the version built on
+i386-*-freebsd* and rerun the top-level gmake with no arguments and it
+should properly complete the bootstrap).  Other CPU architectures
+supported by FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at
+the very least, both boehm-gc and libffi.
 
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