re PR libgcj/6158 (libgcj won't bootstrap on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 if already installed)

	* doc/install.texi (Specific): Update status of Solaris 2.8.
	For PR libgcj/6158.

From-SVN: r52532

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index febb90a3e040157ed62267c44590e81ab85577aa..3fe2921b00ff9462bfce52c0e467ceb06bd637ee 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-04-19  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
+
+       * doc/install.texi (Specific): Update status of Solaris 2.8.
+       For PR libgcj/6158.
+
 2002-04-19  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
 
        * real.c: Allow sizeof (REAL_VALUE_TYPE) > 2*NE.

diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index 423be2069281a5ea79c0f54e8f2c767c5a5833ff..c90f506b8614ad5c29fe0c5c64ba3de856a6619b 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -3522,10 +3522,12 @@ the Solaris 7 Recommended Patch Cluster.
 
 The Solaris 8 linker fails to link some @samp{libjava} programs if
 previously-installed GCC java libraries already exist in the configured
-prefix.  For this reason, @samp{libgcj} is disabled by default on Solaris 8.
-If you use GNU @command{ld}, or if you don't have a previously-installed @samp{libgcj} in
-the same prefix, use @option{--enable-libgcj} to build and install the
-Java libraries.
+prefix.  For this reason, @command{configure} will report an error on
+Solaris 8 if an existing @samp{libgcj} is found in the appropriate
+install directory and the system linker is in use.  In this case, you
+can configure with a different prefix, or delete or rename the existing
+@samp{libgcj} library files before configuring, or configure using
+@option{--disable-libgcj}.
 
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