Re: Minor changes to improve libtool support of GCJ

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2001, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > This prepares for the fix for the GCJ `-c -o'-detection problem that
> > follows soon.
>
> Here it is.  I find the explicit pre-creation of
> gnu/classpath/Configuration.java very gross, and considered the
> possibility of having a gnu/classpath/Configuration.java in the source
> tree, but feared it might be used when we wouldn't want it to be.  I
> also fear changes in this gnu/classpath/Configuration.java.in might
> require changes in the pre-creating script, whose need might go
> undetected for a while.  Thoughts?

Isn't there a way to convince libtool that gcj always will support -c -o and
just not bother testing for it?

I did consider the problem of doing compilation tests with gcj when I put in
the Configuration.java thing in, but decided that with libgcj in the gcc tree
such tests now wouldn't be neccessary (ie we can assume compatibility across
the compiler and runtime at all times).

regards

  [ bryce ]