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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 0f37da123205ecfdcdee3793bde1fcf51305f388..d4d0a105321feee0fa688ce489ed407518ff9f4d 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -4,17 +4,14 @@ CACAO specific installation instructions
 * CLASSPATH, classfiles & other Java weirdness
 ----------------------------------------------
 
-Make sure, you have classfiles, which work with cacao. A version of
+Make sure you have classfiles which work with cacao. A version of
 these can be found at
 ftp://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/pub/java/cacao/classes.zip.gz
 
 After the installation of these set the environment variable CLASSPATH
-to the directories where your class libraries are stored. The
-environment variable JAVA_HOME (due to a bug this variable is called
-JAVAHOME in versions less than 0.4) to the java home
-directory. E. g. if you unzipped classes.zip in the directory
-/usr/local/lib/java/classes set the environment variable to
-/usr/local/lib/java/classes and JAVA_HOME to /usr/local/lib/java.
+to the directories where your class libraries are stored. E. g. if you
+unzipped classes.zip in the directory /usr/local/lib/java/classes set
+the CLASSPATH environment variable to /usr/local/lib/java/classes.
 
 * configuring & compiling CACAO
 -------------------------------

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cab59795cfba9b34cf58207ae76a4e23dca53c13..a4d458bbf48e6023586b425f837631dd8b01197a 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ all the changes in the code.
 * Version 0.40 (released)
 =========================
 
+** Boehm garbage collector supported
+------------------------------------
+
+The --enable-gc2 options was replaced by --with-gc. Choose boehm for the
+Boehm garbage collector. Also see README.boehm.
+
 ** mips port
 ------------
 

diff --git a/README b/README
index 7027d77028fd919848b2c164209bf01c149fc019..15d5560910ad75f085a9696beb7d1479374b149e 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 CACAO is a 64-bit (32-bit versions are planned) Java virtual machine
 for Alphas and Mips processors.
 
-The current sources of CACAO version 0.30 are a snapshot during
+The current sources of CACAO version 0.40 are a snapshot during
 development.  They will change in the near future and are badly
 documented. This version is not intended for public distribution. 
 It is made available only for educational and research purposes.
@@ -24,4 +24,3 @@ please contact Andreas Krall (andi@complang.tuwien.ac.at) directly.
 Enjoy the ride,
 -- the cacao team.
 
-

diff --git a/README.boehm b/README.boehm
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..43617c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.boehm
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+* README.boehm
+==============
+
+In order to use the Boehm GC, you must build it seperately and copy libgc.a and
+gc.h to the cacao directory.

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 448536c3cac010afea6389265fb1d9cd3364eeb1..fd6dfbcf383418bdb564398c25d2f9d5a966e399 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ boehm )
        AC_MSG_RESULT(Boehm garbage collector)
        GC_OBJ="mm/libboehm.a libgc.a"
        if test ! -e libgc.a; then
-               AC_MSG_ERROR(libgc.a not found)
+               AC_MSG_ERROR([libgc.a not found, see README.boehm])
        fi
        AC_DEFINE(USE_BOEHM)
        BOEHM_LIB=libboehm.a