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From: Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu>
To: java@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
Subject: Re: why doesn't libgcj link against libiconv?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110616145334.GA13505@bromo.med.uc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110616143319.GA11931@bromo.med.uc.edu>

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:33:19AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    I am running into a very odd bug on darwin with both gcc-4_6-branch
> and gcc trunk. Last year I added a patch to insure that when gcc was
> built with -with-libiconv-prefix=/sw, that libgcj.spec would provide the
> necessary linkage "-L/sw/lib -liconv" to access the correct libiconv.
> For some unknown reason the installed libgcj.spec now loses LDLIBICONV.
> The weird part is that the libgcj.spec generated in the build directory
> still has it...
> 
> [MacPro:~] howarth% cd /sw/src/fink.build/gcc47-4.7.0-1000/darwin_objdir/x86_64-apple-darwin11.0.0/libjava
> [MacPro:darwin_objdir/x86_64-apple-darwin11.0.0/libjava] howarth% more libgcj.spec
> #
> # This spec file is read by gcj when linking.
> # It is used to specify the standard libraries we need in order
> # to link with libgcj.
> #
> %rename startfile startfileorig
> *startfile:  %(startfileorig)
> 
> %rename lib liborig
> *lib:  %{s-bc-abi:} -lgcj    -L/sw/lib -liconv    -lz %{!Zdynamiclib:%{!Zbundle:-allow_stack_execute}}  %(libgcc)  %(liborig) -no_pie
> 
> *jc1: -fhash-synchronization -fuse-divide-subroutine -fcheck-references -fuse-boehm-gc -fnon-call-exceptions     -fkeep-inline-functions
> 
> but the installed libgcc.spec doesn't...
> 
> [MacPro:~] howarth% cd /sw/lib/gcc4.7/lib
> [MacPro:lib/gcc4.7/lib] howarth% more libgcj.spec
> #
> # This spec file is read by gcj when linking.
> # It is used to specify the standard libraries we need in order
> # to link with libgcj.
> #
> %rename startfile startfileorig
> *startfile:  %(startfileorig)
> 
> %rename lib liborig
> *lib:  %{s-bc-abi:} -lgcj        -lz %{!Zdynamiclib:%{!Zbundle:-allow_stack_execute}}  %(libgcc)  %(liborig) -no_pie
> 
> *jc1: -fhash-synchronization -fuse-divide-subroutine -fcheck-references -fuse-boehm-gc -fnon-call-exceptions     -fkeep-inline-functions
> 
> 
> Note that I hardcoded -no_pie I added to libgcj.spec.in is retained.
>      I am wondering if we really need to have @LDLIBICONV@ in libgcj.spec.in to solve this. Why can't 
> we simply pass @LDLIBICONV@ to the linkage of libgcj itself so that libgcj,dylib is directly linked against the appropriate
> libiconv to resolve those iconv symbols? Would this approach be acceptable?
>               Jack

I've opened PR49441 as I suspect this breakage was caused by...

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r169822 | rwild | 2011-02-04 00:51:57 -0500 (Fri, 04 Feb 2011) | 12 lines

Fix PR java/21206: Unrecognized option '-Wl,-rpath' for jv-convert

libjava/:
        PR java/21206
        * configure.ac (LDLIBICONV): New substituted variable, with
        instances of '-Wl,' removed from LIBICONV.
        * configure: Regenerate.
        * libgcj.spec.in: Use @LDLIBICONV@ not @LIBICONV@.
        * Makefile.in: Regenerate.
        * gcj/Makefile.in: Likewise.
        * include/Makefile.in: Likewise.
        * testsuite/Makefile.in: Likewise.


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