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Re: PATCH: PR libjava/32078: Update libtool in classpath
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H. J. Lu |
Subject: |
Re: PATCH: PR libjava/32078: Update libtool in classpath |
Date: |
Tue, 29 May 2007 08:18:57 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.2i |
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:09:22PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini writes:
> >
> > >>>> Certainly. Any compile-and-link tests won't work.
> > >>> I'm sorry, I missed the "and link" part of your question. Configury
> > >>> tests of this kind really aren't going to work. For things like tests
> > >>> for PIC, it's pointless: gcj supports the same options as gcc.
> > >> Then, does anybody know the very reason why all those tests are run
> > >> repeatedly for each language?
> > >
> > > I will guess. It is because the C/C++/Java/Fortran/.. compilers may
> > > not come from the same gcc version or based on gcc at all.
> >
> > Okay, so we have a problem. Because the patch you are proposing will
> > not be accepted in any way by upstream. :-(
>
> How come we are doing this *now*? Why was it not a problem before,
> and what has changed?
The old libtool in gcc has been heavily hacked to support building
run-time libraries in gcc. The new libtool update removed most, if
not all, of those hacks, which got us here.
H.J.