Mainline bootstrap failure in libjava, i686-pc-linux-gnu

Tue Apr 10 13:13:00 GMT 2001

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 02:44:34PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > I got the same thing last night. When linking jv-convert or gij it somehow
> > tries to use the libraries found in the --prefix dir (even if that is not
> > in your PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH). I cannot figure out why it is doing that.
> > But moving the old --prefix dir out of the way solved the problem for me.
>> Oh yuck. That means that users cannot install one version of GCC on top of
> an older version without knowing precisely which files to delete beforehand
> (since we can't do an uninstall). You and I know to always use a different
> --prefix for each build, but when everybody else defaults to /usr/local
> this won't work.

That specific problem was caused by Makefile.in not placing
-L$(here)/.libs first. I'll send a proper patch, if nobody beats me to
it.
Jeff