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Re: Minor changes to improve libtool support of GCJ
On Jan 24, 2001, Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2001, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This prepares for the fix for the GCJ `-c -o'-detection problem that
>> > follows soon.
>>
>> Here it is. I find the explicit pre-creation of
>> gnu/classpath/Configuration.java very gross, and considered the
>> possibility of having a gnu/classpath/Configuration.java in the source
>> tree, but feared it might be used when we wouldn't want it to be. I
>> also fear changes in this gnu/classpath/Configuration.java.in might
>> require changes in the pre-creating script, whose need might go
>> undetected for a while. Thoughts?
> Isn't there a way to convince libtool that gcj always will support -c -o and
> just not bother testing for it?
There could be. But there are other properties of the compiler
libtool wants to test.
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