* Ben Hutchings:
> Depending on the architecture, this and several other files in /proc may
> be required by the Boehm garbage collector which is part of gcj's
> implementation of the Java virtual machine. The quoted message comes
> from this:
>
> ptr_t GC_linux_stack_base(void)
> {
> /* We read the stack base value from /proc/self/stat. We do this */
> /* using direct I/O system calls in order to avoid calling malloc */
> /* in case REDIRECT_MALLOC is defined. */
> ...
> f = open("/proc/self/stat", O_RDONLY);
> if (f < 0 || STAT_READ(f, stat_buf, STAT_BUF_SIZE) < 2 * STAT_SKIP) {
> ABORT("Couldn't read /proc/self/stat");
> }
Aha, thanks. I somehow missed that the second message was fatal. So it
is definitely the lack of /proc which causes the installation failure.
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