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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>,
	java-patches@gcc.gnu.org,     gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [wwwdocs,Java] Obsolete GCJ FAQ entry for Solaris?
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1211022129370.2266@tuna.site> (raw)

Rainer (or others),

the FAQ entry below seems obsolete to me (dates back more than a
decade).  Shall we remove it, or is there something else we still
should document (in addition to gcc/doc/install.texi)?

Gerald

Index: faq.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/java/faq.html,v
retrieving revision 1.69
diff -u -3 -p -r1.69 faq.html
--- faq.html	2 Nov 2012 19:59:34 -0000	1.69
+++ faq.html	2 Nov 2012 20:29:12 -0000
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
           <ol>
             <li><a href="#3_1">I need something more recent than the last release; how
                   should I build it?</a></li>
-            <li><a href="#3_2">Linker bug on Solaris</a></li>
           </ol>
         </li>
         <li><a href="#4_0">Gcj Compile/Link Questions</a> 
@@ -278,33 +277,6 @@ $ gij HelloWorld
         </dd>
       </dl>
 
-      <hr />
-      <h3><a name="3_2">3.2 Linker bug on Solaris</a></h3>
-      <dl> 
-        <dd>
-          There is a known problem with the <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/1999-10/msg00159.html"> 
-          native Solaris linker</a> when using gcc/gcj. A good indication you've 
-          run into this problem is if you get an error that looks like the following 
-          when building libgcj: 
-          <pre>
-ld: warning: option -o appears more than once, first setting taken
-ld: fatal: file libfoo.so: cannot open file: No such file or directory
-ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to .libs/libfoo.so
-collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
-          </pre>
-          A known workaround for this and other reported link problems on the 
-          various releases of Solaris is to build gcc/gcj with the <a href="ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots"> 
-          latest GNU binutils</a> instead of the native Solaris <tt>ld</tt>. The 
-          most straightforward way to do this is to build and install binutils, 
-          and then reference it in the configure for gcc via <tt>--with-ld=/path_to_binutils_install/bin/ld</tt> 
-          (<tt>--with-as</tt> may also be similarly specified but is not believed 
-          to be required).
-          <br />
-          Please note, gcc/gcj must be built using GNU ld prior to doing a 
-          clean build of libgcj! 
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-
       <h2><a name="4_0">Gcj Compile/Link Questions</a></h2>
  
       <h3><a name="4_1">4.1 Why do I get <tt>undefined reference to `main'</tt> 

             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-02 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-02 20:32 Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2012-12-21  4:02 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2012-12-21  9:51   ` Andrew Haley

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