Bootstrap failure in 4.4.1

[David Ronis <ronis at ronispc dot chem dot mcgill dot ca>]

I was building gcc-4.4.1 on an i686-linux-gnu slackware-12.2 box with
the default optimization flags.  I'd last built/installed 4.4.0.  The
current build dies at:


libtool: compile:  /home/ronis/objdir/./gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc
-B/home/ronis/objdir/./gcc -nostdinc++
-L/home/ronis/objdir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src
-L/home/ronis/objdir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs
-B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/
-isystem /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include
-isystem /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I../../../gcc/libjava -I./include -I./gcj -I../../../gcc/libjava
-Iinclude -I../../../gcc/libjava/include
-I../../../gcc/libjava/classpath/include -Iclasspath/include
-I../../../gcc/libjava/classpath/native/fdlibm
-I../../../gcc/libjava/../boehm-gc/include -I../boehm-gc/include
-I../../../gcc/libjava/libltdl -I../../../gcc/libjava/libltdl
-I../../../gcc/libjava/.././libjava/../gcc
-I../../../gcc/libjava/../zlib -I../../../gcc/libjava/../libffi/include
-I../libffi/include -fno-rtti -fnon-call-exceptions
-fdollars-in-identifiers -Wswitch-enum -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-ffloat-store -fomit-frame-pointer -Usun -Wextra -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE
-DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -DTOOLEXECLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -DJAVA_HOME=\"/usr\"
-DBOOT_CLASS_PATH=\"/usr/share/java/libgcj-4.4.1.jar\" -DJAVA_EXT_DIRS=
\"/usr/share/java/ext\" -DGCJ_ENDORSED_DIRS=
\"/usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed\" -DGCJ_VERSIONED_LIBDIR=
\"/usr/lib/gcj-4.4.1-10\" -DPATH_SEPARATOR=\":\" -DECJ_JAR_FILE=
\"/usr/share/java/ecj.jar\" -DLIBGCJ_DEFAULT_DATABASE=
\"/usr/lib/gcj-4.4.1-10/classmap.db\"
-DLIBGCJ_DEFAULT_DATABASE_PATH_TAIL=\"gcj-4.4.1-10/classmap.db\" -g -O2
-D_GNU_SOURCE -MT posix-threads.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/posix-threads.Tpo
-c ../../../gcc/libjava/posix-threads.cc -o posix-threads.o >/dev/null
2>&1
here=`pwd`; cd ../../../gcc/libjava/classpath/lib; \
	find gnu java javax org sun -name .svn -prune -o -name '*.class' -print
| \
	gjar -cfM@ $here/libgcj-4.4.1.jar
jar: internal error:
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at
gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Creator.writeCommandLineEntries(libgcj-tools.so.10)
   at gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Creator.run(libgcj-tools.so.10)
   at gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Main.run(libgcj-tools.so.10)
   at gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Main.main(libgcj-tools.so.10)
make[3]: *** [libgcj-4.4.1.jar] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/ronis/objdir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libjava'

/usr/share/java/ecj.jar is a symbolic link to ecj-3.4.2.jar.