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Re: problems building libgcj on irix 6.5


>>>>> "J-M" == John-Marc Chandonia <jmc@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> writes:

>> Why can't you link?

J-M> My mistake... I seem to have installed gcc incorrectly, since I get
J-M> errors of this sort when linking any program, not just java:

This is the weak symbol problem I alluded to.  The gcc thread code in
libgcc should use weak references to the pthread calls.

If your platform doesn't support weak symbols then you might just
lose (I don't know).  Otherwise you've found a gcc problem.

Tom

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