3.2.3-pre tarball 2: libjava build still fails on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Wed Apr 23 23:35:00 GMT 2003


On Apr 23, 2003, Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> wrote:

> If the command that fails is libtool, and libtool has redirected the
> error to /dev/null, and it's intermittent and unreproduceable, well,
> I'm afraid that libtool will be considered guilty until proven innocent.

In that case, indeed, it was libtool's fault.  This was different,
IMO, even though we can hopefully work around the issue in libtool as
well.  Sorry that I wasn't clear.  And it was really meant as a joke.
I hear all sorts of stuff about libtool all the time, and I've managed
to not get offended or anything.  It's just that it is such a complex
piece of software that it's understandable that people prefer not to
delve into it to figure out where exactly the problem is, and assume
it's in libtool, which, unfortunately, is often true.

> I realize that getting libtool to work right and portably is a tough job.

Thanks; it is, indeed :-)

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