From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10836 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2002 18:44:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 10825 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2002 18:44:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gash2.peakpeak.com) (207.174.178.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2002 18:44:17 -0000 Received: from creche.cygnus.com (ta0195.peakpeak.com [204.144.244.195]) by gash2.peakpeak.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17322; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:44:15 -0600 Received: (from tromey@localhost) by creche.cygnus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA27868; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:51:18 -0600 To: "Jerome Marc" Cc: Subject: Re: Cygwin port References: <002f01c1ede0$d1ba0190$0201a8c0@jma1> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom X-Zippy: I can see you GUYS an' GALS need a LOT of HELP...You're all very STUPID!! I used to be STUPID, too..before I started watching UHF-TV!! Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: "Jerome Marc"'s message of "Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:43:58 +0200" Message-ID: <87adrpkmai.fsf@creche.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00393.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome Marc writes: Jerome> I read that libjava cannot be built with cygwin because of Jerome> Windows case insensitive filesystems. I would like to know if Jerome> anyone tried the environment setting : Jerome> CYGWIN=check_case:strict As far as I know nobody has tried this. Jerome> With this setting, I can compile whole java classes Jerome> successfully but found any trouble while linking the Jerome> library. Whithout this setting, the building process stops Jerome> while compiling Gnu.java. What exactly happens when linking the library? Also, how do you configure gcc? Jerome> I just wonder what are the case sensitivity issues whith Jerome> libjava. I don't know of any in libjava. The problem is that the compiler itself gets confused by the case insensitivity. The Gnu.java build problem you saw is the symptom. There's a bunch of discussion of the bug in the mailing list archives. Now that libgcj has mostly been ported to Windows, I'd think it wouldn't be too hard for someone (you :-) to fix this gcj bug. Tom