Recommended GCC version?

[John Coomes]

Mario Torre (neugens at limasoftware.net) wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 31/03/2008 alle 18.37 +0200, Clemens Eisserer ha scritto:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I wonder which version of GCC is recommended for building OpenJDK?
> > 4.3 will probably not work out-of-the-box, should I downgrade to 4.2 or 4.1?
> > ...
> > Thanks a lot, lg Clemens
> 
> I had to "steal" a couple of patches from icedtea to be able to build
> hotspot with gcc 4-3, works fine otherwise.

FWIW, the fix for

	6681796: hotspot build failure on gcc 4.2.x (ubuntu 8.04) w/ openjdk 6

went into the hotspot runtime repository a few days ago:

	http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-rt/hotspot/rev/f139919897d2

It should make its way up to jdk7/jdk7/hotspot fairly soon for jdk7
build 30 or 31.  I expect that will allow hotspot to build on current
linux distros, but I haven't tried yet.

-John