PATCH: PR libjava/32078: Update libtool in classpath

Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
Tue May 29 15:09:00 GMT 2007


>>>> Certainly.  Any compile-and-link tests won't work.
>>> I'm sorry, I missed the "and link" part of your question.  Configury
>>> tests of this kind really aren't going to work.  For things like tests
>>> for PIC, it's pointless: gcj supports the same options as gcc.
>> Then, does anybody know the very reason why all those tests are run 
>> repeatedly for each language?
> 
> I will guess. It is because the C/C++/Java/Fortran/.. compilers may
> not come from the same gcc version or based on gcc at all.

Okay, so we have a problem.  Because the patch you are proposing will 
not be accepted in any way by upstream. :-(

Paolo



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