3.2.3-pre tarball 2: libjava build still fails on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Wed Apr 23 18:52:00 GMT 2003

On Apr 21, 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
> Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> | Interestingly, my problem is libtool-related as well.

I find this reasoning interesting... It is as libtool-related as
make-related and shell-related, if you ask me. I mean, you're
starting from a shell, right? And it is make that starts libtool,
right? And libtool starts the linker, right? And the linker fails
because it's buggy. So... It's pretty obvious that it's libtool's
fault, right? :-D
> | I first reported a variant of this problem in
> | http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-06/threads.html#00284
> | but didn't notice it on the 3.2 branch until now, because I had Java
> | disabled on the slow Solaris boxes. :-(

> Well, it seems that that issue had been debated in-depth; I would really
> appreciate if Alexandre Oliva or Tom Tromey or any libtool-guru could
> jump in and enlighten me.

The one thing that is getting me confused is the long list of object
files in the link command. libtool could use -z allextract instead of
extracting the object files itself. Currently, for some reason,
libtool would use it when using Sun CC, or gcc as a C or Java linker,
but not when using gcc as a C++ linker (I haven't investigated why it
thinks we're doing C++ instead of Java).
Gerald, could you please test whether this patch fixes the problem?
If so, will you please check it into the release branch?
Thanks,
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