Re: PATCH: PR libjava/32098: New libtool doesn't support libjava

[Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>]

H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:20:02PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > New libtool calls gcj to test gcj features. However, gcj isn't
> > > fully functional when building libjava since ecj1 isn't available.
> > > As the result, libtool created for libjava isn't really correct.
> > > This patch uses gcc to test gcj features like PIC and "-c -o".
> > Is there any way to achieve this result without forking libtool? [1,2,3]
>
> That is the best I can find.

No, that's wrong.  You can try changing libtool.m4 to run tests on 
.class files instead; compile them with an old GCJ, and include the 
bytecode in libtool.m4, using tr or awk to turn ASCII strings into bytecode.

This is a kind of patch that, I think, will be acceptable upstream (it 
will be accepted as an interim measure in the GCC libtool, but it will 
have to be included in libtool itself too).

Paolo