Weird New libjava Testsuite Failure (PR java/14104)

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

Hi,

    Of late I've been noticing a persistent failure
in the libjava testsuite on i686-pc-linux-gnu:

    FAIL: linking simple

It turns out that others have also been facing
this and there's even a PR (java/14104) on it:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14104

It can also be seen on any of the recent published
testsuite results for i686-pc-linux-gnu on the
gcc-testresults list, e.g.

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-03/msg00876.html

The weird part is that it does not reproduce on the
command line, whether invoked simply as
"gcj --main=simple simple.jar" or *even using the
exact command line used to invoke gcj via libtool*,
viz (in my case):
----------------------------- 8< -----------------------------
/home/ranmath/src/gcc/build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libjava/testsuite/../libtool \
--silent --tag=GCJ --mode=link /home/ranmath/src/gcc/build/gcc/gcj \
-B/home/ranmath/src/gcc/build/gcc/ --encoding=UTF-8 \
-B/home/ranmath/src/gcc/build/i686-pc-linux-gnu//libjava/ \
/home/ranmath/src/gcc/gcc-20040317/libjava/testsuite/libjava.jar/simple.jar \
-no-install --main=simple -g  \
-L/home/ranmath/src/gcc/build/i686-pc-linux-gnu//libjava/.libs \
-lm   -o simple
----------------------------- 8< -----------------------------

Any insights into the problem or at least how to
try to reproduce it reliably?

Since it doesn't reproduce on the command line, I can't
even jump in with a debugger to see where exactly
the problem is. :-(

Ranjit.

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