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Re: 3.2.3-pre tarball 2: libjava build still fails on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:51:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: 3.2.3-pre tarball 2: libjava build still fails on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
- References: <20030417091616.A11341@synopsys.com> <20030417102820.A12714@lucon.org> <20030417144017.A1398@synopsys.com> <200304181447.51672.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0304202318170.83909@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <m34r4sm19q.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net> <oradehax51.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I find this reasoning interesting... It is as libtool-related as
> make-related and shell-related, if you ask me. I mean, you're
> starting from a shell, right? And it is make that starts libtool,
> right? And libtool starts the linker, right? And the linker fails
> because it's buggy. So... It's pretty obvious that it's libtool's
> fault, right? :-D
If the command that fails is libtool, and libtool has redirected the
error to /dev/null, and it's intermittent and unreproduceable, well,
I'm afraid that libtool will be considered guilty until proven innocent.
I realize that getting libtool to work right and portably is a tough job.