+2002-05-02 Loren J. Rittle <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+ * doc/install.texi (*-*-freebsd*): Update to latest status.
+
2002-05-02 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
PR target/6540
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 or greater is known to improve overall testsuite results.
+2.12.1 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
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
+and tested on i386-*-freebsd4.5 and alpha-*-freebsd5.0. The static
+library may be incorrectly built (symbols are missing at link time).
+There is a rare timing-based startup hang (probably involves an
+assupmtion about the thread library). 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