OK, this failure is at "make -j 2".  Blah.  The complete build log can be found at

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~lucier/build.2003-08-27.log.gz

This used to work.

This is the end of the log

creating libgcjgc_convenience.la
sparc-sun-solaris2.8-gcc -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,libgcjgc.so.1 -o
.libs/libgcjgc.so.1.0.1  .libs/allchblk.o .libs/alloc.o .libs/blacklst.o
.libs/checksums.o .libs/dbg_mlc.o .libs/dyn_load.o .libs/finalize.o
.libs/gc_dlopen.o .libs/gcj_mlc.o .libs/headers.o .libs/aix_irix_threads.o
.libs/malloc.o .libs/mallocx.o .libs/mark.o .libs/mark_rts.o .libs/misc.o
.libs/new_hblk.o .libs/obj_map.o .libs/os_dep.o .libs/pcr_interface.o
.libs/ptr_chck.o .libs/real_malloc.o .libs/reclaim.o .libs/solaris_pthreads.o
.libs/solaris_threads.o .libs/specific.o .libs/stubborn.o .libs/typd_mlc.o
.libs/backgraph.o .libs/win32_threads.o .libs/pthread_support.o
.libs/pthread_stop_world.o .libs/darwin_stop_world.o .libs/sparc_mach_dep.o 
-lpthread -lc 
(cd .libs && rm -f libgcjgc_convenience.la && ln -s ../libgcjgc_convenience.la
libgcjgc_convenience.la)
ld: fatal: file .libs/allchblk.o: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to .libs/libgcjgc.so.1.0.1
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[6]: *** [libgcjgc.la] Error 1
make[6]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....