gcc 2.95 core dump with java on Solaris 2.5.1

Mon Aug 16 13:33:00 GMT 1999

On Aug 16, 1999, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Gregor" == Frey, Gregor Karl Dr <gregor.karl.frey@sap-ag.de> writes:
Gregor> Both solutions do not work for me:
Gregor> - I don't want to use another but the SUN's linker
Gregor> - Statical linking with libgcj did not made a difference
> I'm a bit suprised that static linking doesn't work. Can you find out
> why the static constructors are not being run in this case? (If
> indeed that is what is happening?)

Libtool won't use gcc for linking on Solaris when it detects gcc uses
Sun's ld. Instead, it will run ld directly, which causes constructors
not to be run.
That's just one of the reasons why the libtool manual says it doesn't
support languages other than C.
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