Re: gcj static builds are failing

[Marco Trudel <mtrudel at gmx dot ch>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Andrew> At the moment we determine the availability of libmagic at libgcj
> Andrew> build time.  This is wrong, because even if libmagic is present when
> Andrew> gcj is built, it isn't necessarily present when libgcj apps are built,
> Andrew> and vice versa.
>
> I don't agree with this.  I think it is safe to assume that whatever
> we discover at configure time is true for the lifetime of the libgcj
> install.

What about deploying the compiler binaries to users (as mingw, cygwin, 
Mohan or I do)? Or what about cross compilations where the host will be 
something different?


> I can't think of a case anywhere in GCC where we do
> something different than this.
>
> Tom