On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>  The gcj compiler needs to pass -no_pie for linkage on darwin11 due to the new -pie
> default of the linker. The attached patch accomplishes this by passing -no_pie on SYSTEMSPEC
> for *-*-darwin[12]*. Since Darwin10 supports -no_pie in its linker, I included it in the
> triplet match to simplify the syntax. Bootstrap and tested on x86_64-apple-darwin11.
> Okay for gcc trunk with PR added to comment as requested?
>               Jack
> ps This change also works for gcc-4_6-branch in concert with a backport of
> r175089 and r175108.
> 
> 2011-06-17  Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu>
> 
> 	PR target/49461
> 	* libjava/configure.ac (SYSTEMSPEC): Pass -no_pie for darwin11.
> 	* libjava/configure: Regenerate.

Checked in r175182, with one additional comment.  We still welcome tracking down what exactly doesn't work and a bug report and fix for that, until then, I think life is too short to have java be broken for too long.