PATCH: Use libgcj_convenience.la ( Re: libjava bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8)

Wed Jun 5 14:14:00 GMT 2002

On Jun 4, 2002, Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> wrote:
> This is due to how libtool eats -static in some cases. (I will not
> engage in an argument over whether that is good behavior for libtool
> since I know Alex could explain why it does; it just does.)

Libtool shouldn't just drop -static, ever. -static means, to libtool,
prefer static libraries over dynamic ones. If -static doesn't cause
libtool to turn say libjava.la into libjava.a, as opposed to -ljava
that the linker would resolve to say libjava.so, that'd be a bug.
What -static doesn't mean to libtool is to reject any kind of dynamic
linking. -all-static does that, and there are good reasons for this.
I won't delve into them unless I'm asked to.
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