From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25477 invoked by alias); 29 May 2007 15:09:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 25462 invoked by uid 22791); 29 May 2007 15:09:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 May 2007 15:09:32 +0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4TF9TbD021996; Tue, 29 May 2007 11:09:29 -0400 Received: from zebedee.littlepinkcloud.COM (vpn-14-90.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.90]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4TF9Pud008606; Tue, 29 May 2007 11:09:26 -0400 Received: from littlepinkcloud.COM (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zebedee.littlepinkcloud.COM (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l4TF9NhR026844; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:09:23 +0100 Received: (from aph@localhost) by littlepinkcloud.COM (8.13.8/8.13.5/Submit) id l4TF9Mcq026841; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:09:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18012.16930.147277.271416@zebedee.pink> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:16:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: "H. J. Lu" , Matthias Klose , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org, libtool-patches@gnu.org Subject: Re: PATCH: PR libjava/32078: Update libtool in classpath In-Reply-To: <465C4185.7050604@gnu.org> References: <465C2D27.10500@gnu.org> <20070529134331.GA18576@lucon.org> <465C2ECF.3040006@gnu.org> <18012.13131.22905.678441@zebedee.pink> <20070529142459.GA12924@lucon.org> <18012.14391.920909.161358@zebedee.pink> <20070529143628.GA13198@lucon.org> <18012.15175.218349.19687@zebedee.pink> <18012.15270.203430.143935@zebedee.pink> <465C3D67.1000001@gnu.org> <20070529145928.GA13402@lucon.org> <465C4185.7050604@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.93.1 Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q2/txt/msg00236.txt.bz2 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? Andrew.