gcj problem with -static option

Thu Mar 16 17:49:00 GMT 2006

David Daney writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Diego Novillo writes:
 > > > On 03/16/06 12:27, FERANDELLE Pascal wrote:
 > > > 
 > > > > I rebuild everything with GCC 4.1.0 version on PC running RedHat EL 3.0.
 > > > > My simple HelloWorld program is still "segfaulting" when compiled with the -static option.
 > > > > But the trace under gdb has changed; I have now :
 > > > > 
 > > > This may or may not be related but we had similar looking problems with
 > > > OpenMP programs. They were segfaulting on startup when linked statically.
 > > > 
 > > > It apparently is a problem with weak symbols in the threading library
 > > > not being pulled in with -static.
 > > > 
 > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00248.html
 > > 
 > > Ooh, nasty. Thanks for that.
 > 
 > This is why we have the gcj wiki.
Not really, no. A user shouldn't be expected to search the wiki,
which should be in addition to the docs, not a substiture for them.
If -static can never work with gcj on GNU/Linux we should remove it as
an option.
Andrew.