work around libtool to fix alpha libgcj build

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Fri Feb 11 17:06:00 GMT 2005


On Feb 11, 2005, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:

> Richard Henderson writes:
>> now libgcj.a, the static library, is built with -fPIC.  I mentioned
>> this to tromey on irc, and he thought that while it was
>> unfortunate, it'd be ok.

> That ought to be a huge advantage, because it'll only be necessary to
> compile each java file once, rather than twice.

But only if you were to compile them with --tag disable-static.
Otherwise, you compile them twice, but only use one of them.

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