Re: work around libtool to fix alpha libgcj build

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2005, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Alexandre Oliva writes:
> >
> > > On Feb 11, 2005, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Richard Henderson writes:
> > > >
> > > > > now libgcj.a, the static library, is built with -fPIC.  I mentioned
> > > > > this to tromey on irc, and he thought that while it was
> > > > > unfortunate, it'd be ok.
> > >
> > > > That ought to be a huge advantage, because it'll only be necessary to
> > > > compile each java file once, rather than twice.
> > >
> > > But only if you were to compile them with --tag disable-static.
> > > Otherwise, you compile them twice, but only use one of them.
>
>
> > Can we not fix this?
>
>
> We probably can.  I just have no idea of how to accomplish this with
> automake.  Basically, you want to add --tag=disable-static before (or
> right after) --tag={CC,CXX,GCJ} --mode=compile.

Probably a naive question, but why not fix libtool so we don't have to 
trick it into doing the right thing?

David Daney