Re: 3.3.1 GCJ Cross compiler configuration issues

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Peter Blemel writes:
 > 
 > I just wanted to follow up on my port.    I disabled multilib and finally 
 > got all the way through a build, after tweaking the various things I 
 > mentioned previously.   Splitting out the various java classes was a bust 
 > due to class inter-dependencies.   The security manager actually references 
 > JFrame.

Does it really?  Gosh.  We should fix that.  

 > I decided to fight that battle another day and went back to
 > building everything.  Once I had a good build of libgcj I went back
 > and did a multilib build (and let it run all night :-)
 > 
 > Trying to link against the shared libs for the RTOS was an experience.   
 > Adding -Wl,--call_shared to the link gave the linker grief.  It took me a 
 > bit to figure out how to use the linker configuration file, where I put in 
 > my libraries.   That's a little bit of a kludge given that when I pass the 
 > build out to the team they may not have the RTOS on the same partion / path. 
 >   I'd like to be able to pass the RTOS install dir into the link 
 > configuration script.
 > 
 > I've only got a half dozen undefined symbols left when I try to build 
 > HelloWorld.    I don't have fcntl. time. strdup, and what not.    Those are 
 > easy to write, but I'm out of steam and it's a holiday weekend.  I'll tackle 
 > that next week.
 > 
 > So, thanks again.   I'm just a few symbols shy of trying to run HelloWorld 
 > on my embedded box.    I'll pass along the diffs that I used to get it to 
 > compile.

Thanks.

Andrew.