From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21992 invoked by alias); 2 May 2002 16:36:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 21818 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 16:35:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at) (128.130.111.12) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 May 2002 16:35:52 -0000 Received: from naos (naos [128.130.111.28]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g42GZ9W10646; Thu, 2 May 2002 18:35:09 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:36:00 -0000 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Rainer Orth cc: Richard Henderson , Joe Buck , Alexandre Oliva , , , , Tom Tromey Subject: Re: Still failing to bootstrap on Solaris (CONFIG_SHELL doesn't help) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 [ I added an explicit Cc: to Tom and the java list, as Tom has spent most time with this "nice" bug. ] On 2 May 2002, Rainer Orth wrote: >> But java is *not* default on solaris, so at this late date >> I am unconcerned. > It used to be up to solaris 2.7, and disabled for 2.8 in the toplevel > configure.in. This has changed, though: now it's on by default for all > releases, with a check which bails out if libgcj.la is present in $libdir. > This check is for sparc-*-solaris2.8 only at the moment. The new reports > indicate that this problem occurs at least with some ld patchlevels on > solaris 2.7. I've just verified that it happens with the latest solaris > 2.6 (107733-10) and 2.5.1 (103627-15) ld patches as well. > > So the safest approach seems to be to match *-*-solaris2* there to > accomodate all of sparc, sparcv9 and i?86. As the one having reported the problem originally (and tried various fixes Tom and others have suggested) I agree. Given your new information, this seems to be the safest approach. (Can one of you submit a patch for configure and the installation docs for this?) Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/