Re: Q : Initial problems

[Mart Käsper <mart at netsoftlund dot se>]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> 
> You do not need, and cannot use Sun's (or anyone else's) implementation
> of the standard java classes with the gcj compiler. You should start by
> building and installing libgcj:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/java/download.html
> 
> It s0unds to me like the binary distribution you installed did not
> include libgcj.
>

Obviously - thanks for pointing it out :-)

BTW - is libgcj 2.95.1 OK ?

> >   My built from source variant created a binary OK, but running it
> >   produces a core dump (apparently something with the initial creation
> >   of static variables, according to adb).
> >
> 
> This is what we call the "solaris linker bug". libtool is failing to
> arrange for libgcj's static C++ initializers to be run. You should be
> able to get around this by using GNU ld, and rebuilding both gcc and
> libgcj with the "--with-ld=/path/to/gnu/ld" configure option.
>

I will try the GNU binutils - I though read in the GCC install/SPECIFIC
file that for sparc-sun-solaris, binutils 2.9.1 contains a bug, thereby
native assembler/linker is suggested. So I will try binutils 2.10 ...

> regards
> 
>   [ bryce ]

Thanks for the response :-)

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