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


On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:49:11PM +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.


H.J.


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