solaris2 libjava 500 failures

Thu May 3 00:19:00 GMT 2001

On 2 May 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> That's quite unlikely. When the compiler is GCC, ltconfig asks it
> which ld it's going to use with -print-prog-name=ld.

Fair enough. I tried again. Same result.
On closer inspection, ltconfig is seeing --with-gnu-ld from configure, so
it is only doing as it is told. (Next time I won't be so quick to blame
libtool, I promise!)
Oh, I see, in the toplevel Makefile for $(CONFIGURE_TARGET_MODULES):
 LD="$(LD_FOR_TARGET)"; export LD; \

LD_FOR_TARGET is `ld' for native builds. Hmm... that's not what gcc uses. 
So is this a bug, feature, or just plain caveat utilitor?
Jeff