RFA: [PATCH]: MIPS enhancements to libgcj...

[David Daney]

Andrew Haley wrote:

>David Daney writes:
> > Rainer Orth wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >This shouldn't be configure options in my opinion, but the problem should
> > >be detected by autoconf if at all possible.  Otherwise, just enable it in
> > >configure.{in, host} for the affected platforms.
> > >
> > >	Rainer
> > >  
> > >
> > The only way I know of to detect the got overflow problem is to build 
> > libgcj and see what happens.  I don't think that can reasonably be done 
> > with autoconf (chicken and egg problem).
> > 
> > The only way to test for broken dladdr is likewise to build libgcj, 
> > install it on the target and run it.  Again something that cannot be 
> > done with autoconf
>
>Can't you do this in configure.host?  i.e. if this is a MIPS target,
>build with -xgot and don't use dladdr().  I don't like adding all
>these new configure options, especially for temporary workarounds.
>
>Andrew.
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>
It looks like that is the way everyone thinks that it should be. 
 However I think that dladdr may only be broken for me, so disabling it 
for everyone may not be the right thing to do.

Likewise it seems possible that N32 and N64 ABI targets may not need -mxgot.

If you still think that this should go in configure.host, I will update 
the patch.

Let me know.

David Daney.

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