Re: PATCH: PR libjava/32078: Update libtool in classpath

[H. J. Lu]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 05:06:45PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> >>>>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. :-(

Bulding an XXX language run-time library is a very special case. You
can't build an XXX language run-time library, assuming the XXX language
compiler is fully functional.  If upstream libtool can support it, it
is great. Otherwise, we have to do one of these 4:

1. Drop Java.
2. Drop libtool for libjava.
3. Hack libtool for libjava.
4. Hack libjava configure to work around the libtool problem.

I proposed #3 with a simple and straightforward work around. We may
have to keep it around forever.


H.J.