Re: bootstrap/10811: libjava/libltdl/configure fails

[Dara Hazeghi <dhazeghi@yahoo.com>]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/10811; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dara Hazeghi <dhazeghi@yahoo.com>
To: Ari Pollak <ari@ccs.neu.edu>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bootstrap/10811: libjava/libltdl/configure fails
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 01:54:50 -0700 (PDT)

 --- Ari Pollak <ari@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
 > Yes, either make bootstrapping or making with
 > CONFIG_SHELL set to ksh 
 > makes it run fine. What exactly is the difference in
 > the end result 
 > between 'make' and 'make bootstrap'?
 
 Make bootstrap builds the compiler in 3 stages.
 stage 1: build compiler with existing compiler.
 stage 2: build compiler with stage 1 compiler
 stage 3: build compiler with stage 1 compiler (again)
 final stage: compare the files created in stage 2 and
 3, they must be identical!
 
 make just does stage 1.
 
 theoretically, if make bootstrap works, make should
 work. But the /bin/sh issues are simply bugs in the
 Solaris shell, which seem to trigger more or less
 randomly. CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh is supposed to fix
 this by providing a reliable shell.
 
 Dara
 
 P.S. That doesn't mean that it wouldn't be nice to get
 everything to work with /bin/sh, simply that doing so
 is difficult, and no one's yet succeeded.
 
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