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Re: PATCH: PR libjava/32078: Update libtool in classpath
Paolo Bonzini writes:
>
> >>>> Certainly. Any compile-and-link tests won't work.
> >>> I'm sorry, I missed the "and link" part of your question. Configury
> >>> tests of this kind really aren't going to work. For things like tests
> >>> for PIC, it's pointless: gcj supports the same options as gcc.
> >> Then, does anybody know the very reason why all those tests are run
> >> repeatedly for each language?
> >
> > I will guess. It is because the C/C++/Java/Fortran/.. compilers may
> > not come from the same gcc version or based on gcc at all.
>
> Okay, so we have a problem. Because the patch you are proposing will
> not be accepted in any way by upstream. :-(
How come we are doing this *now*? Why was it not a problem before,
and what has changed?
Andrew.