Creating libgcj for AIX

["Dean Hill" <dhill at hotmail dot com>]

I'm using the GCC 3.3 source code under AIX 4.3.3.

I think I'm on the final step to creating the libgcj library. I've 
configured libjava and when I run make, the libtool script is eventually 
executed. Attached is the output from make and the libtool script itself. 
NOTE: There is a line in make.out that is over 68,000 bytes long. My version 
of vi will NOT display this line.

The line that is so long is attempting to execute the 'nm' command with a 
list of all the object files needed for libgcj. There are so many object 
files, that the 'nm' line is too long and 'nm' fails with the error:
   ./libtool[3463]: /bin/nm: arg list too long
The 'expr' command also fails with the message:
   ./libtool[3536]: /bin/expr: arg list too long

Line #3462 of the libtool script does the execution of 'nm' and should exit 
the libtool script if 'nm' fails. However, 'nm' still returns zero even 
though the "arg list is too long". I've modified the attached libtool to 
exit if the export file 'nm' is supposed to create is zero in size. (If my 
modification is useful as a permanent change to the libtool script, feel 
free to use it.)

Since libtool did not exit when 'nm' failed, the script continues and tries 
to create reloadable object files. I think it plans on creating 340 object 
files because of the message:
    creating a temporary reloadable object file: .libs/libgcj.la-340.o

While generating libgcj.la-64.o, my file system fills up. The files 
libgcj.la-1.o through libgcj.la-64.o take up about 460Mb of space.

Some of my questions are:
o When people have built libgcj on other systems, how do they avoid the "arg 
list is too long" errors?

o How do I get 'nm' to generate the export file successfully?

o If I can get 'nm' to create the export file successfully, will I still 
need huge amounts of disk space for generating the reloadable object files?

Thanks for your help.
Dean

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