libjava test suite keeps getting stuck

Thu Apr 19 19:26:00 GMT 2001

On 19 Apr 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Maybe there is another problem that I haven't paid attention to? :-(

The one that puts -lc ahead of -lpthread? I reported it a while back,
then promptly forgot about it again.
I'm not fully convinced it's a libtool bug anyway. I've got some pending
fixes to libjava/Makefile.am that might help. Then again, if we stop
pulling in libsupc++ it'll disappear anyway.
> Zack> My suggested fix for this is to stop using libtool. :-)
>> This has come up a few times. For the target libraries the argument
> is that since we know we're using gcc we could just have gcc do the
> work.

I have reservations about using libtool for the testsuite, frankly...
it changes the link order and can mask subtle problems with libgcj.spec.
For building libgcj proper there's still no alternative to libtool.
Jeff