printing exceptions?

Tue Mar 5 14:21:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey wrote:
>I've spent an inordinate amount of time looking at this. I've rebuilt
>libgcj from scratch 5 or 6 times in the last couple days.
>>I think the bug occurs here:
>> LIBLINK = $(LIBTOOL) --tag=CXX --mode=link $(CXX) -L$(here) $(JC1FLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
>>If I change this to use `--tag=CC', then the bug goes away.
>I have no theory to explain this.
>>Alexandre, do you have any insight here?
>Is there any reason I shouldn't just make the above change and check
>it in? This represents a very serious (and weird) regression.
>
Could it be link order? I noticed libtool was adding some "-lgcc_s" type 
stuff to the link lines for the binaries in libgcj. This messes up the 
link order, causing libgcc to be linked after some of the other shared libs.
regards
Bryce.