particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by default.
However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system
compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good
-results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@.
+results on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@. In the past, known to
+bootstrap and check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2,
+4.3, 4.4, 4.5-STABLE@.
In principle, @option{--enable-threads} is now compatible with
@option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@. However, it has only been built
-and tested on @samp{i386-*-freebsd4.5} and @samp{alpha-*-freebsd5.0}.
+and tested on @samp{i386-*-freebsd[45]} and @samp{alpha-*-freebsd[45]}.
The static
library may be incorrectly built (symbols are missing at link time).
There is a rare timing-based startup hang (probably involves an
assumption about the thread library). Multi-threaded boehm-gc (required for
libjava) exposes severe threaded signal-handling bugs on FreeBSD before
-4.5-RELEASE. The alpha port may not fully bootstrap without some manual
-intervention: @command{gcjh} will crash with a floating-point exception while
-generating @file{java/lang/Double.h} (just copy the version built on
-@samp{i386-*-freebsd*} and rerun the top-level @command{gmake} with no
-arguments and it
-should properly complete the bootstrap). Other CPU architectures
+4.5-RELEASE@. Other CPU architectures
supported by FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at
the very least, both boehm-gc and libffi.