Bootstrap difficulties on powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 (Mac OS X 10.2.8)

[Peter O'Gorman]

Peter O'Gorman wrote:


> Of course it dies trying to run the libtool script because there are 
> simply too many files, so I'll run away in embarrassment.

The really annoying thing about this one is that it was fixed in 2001 but 
was unfixed again here:

2004-08-19  Thomas Fitzsimmons  <fitzsim@redhat.com>
             Michael Koch  <konqueror@gmx.de>

         * configure.in,
         Makefile.am: Ported to automake 1.9.
         * Makefile.in:
         aclocal.m4
         configure
         gcj/Makefile.in
         include/Makefile.in
         testsuite/Makefile.in
         include/config.h.in:
         Regenerated.
         * gcc/doc/install.texi: Update entry about automake for libjava.

Part of the diff is here:

-## Pass the list of object files to libtool in a temporary file to
-## avoid tripping platform command line length limits.
-libgcj.la: $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) $(libgcj_la_DEPENDENCIES)
-	@echo Creating list of files to link...
-	@: $(call write_entries_to_file,$(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) 
$(libgcj_la_LIBADD),libgcj.objectlist)
-	$(libgcj_la_LINK) -objectlist libgcj.objectlist \
-	@GCLIBS@ @LIBFFI@ @ZLIBS@ \
-	-rpath $(toolexeclibdir) $(libgcj_la_LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
-

The libgcj.la target was there to override what automake would put in so 
that the -objectlist flag would be used to call libtool which could then 
deal appropriately with the extra long argument list.

Peter
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