Q : Initial problems

[Mart Käsper <mart at netsoftlund dot se>]

Hi,

as a newbie in the GCJ area, I've run into some initial stuff that I
haven't been able to resolve from FAQ/mail-lists/etc - I'm sure the
solution lies in front of me, please guide me ...

My environment is Solaris 2.6 (SPARC) and Red Hat 6.0 (yes - same
behaviour on both platforms), GCC 2.95.2. JDK used is 1.2.1 on Sun,
1.1.7v3 on RedHat.

* when running gcj, it complains about not being able to read the
  specs at /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2 in
  the file libgcj.spec. I had to create a link named so pointing to
  specs (in the same directory). Obviously there is something fishy
  already here, isn't it ?

* how does cgj know where to fetch the JDK-originated symbols from ?
  Should I compile the JDK runtime classes at first, or what ? I tried
  just to include the runtime jar to the classpath while compiling :

     gcj -o st --classpath=.:<jdk path>/rt.jar --main=Test Test.java

  but it only resulted in a lot of linking problems (mostly JDK
related).

* On Solaris, I've tried both ready-built binaries and built-from-src,
  but gotten neither to work properly.

  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).

Where should I start ?

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