Recommended GCC version?

[Clemens Eisserer]

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?

Some time ago I developed using the closed java-source, and I had to
install gcc-3.3.6 in order to be able to build the motif-stuff,
however using such an old version of gcc, linking hotspot failed with
some obscure messages. (I solved it by copying an already compiled
library into the build-dirs, so the process thought hotspot was
already build ;) ).
Is it possible to not build the motif stuff at all?

Thanks a lot, lg Clemens