libgcj/221: link failure with multilib and/or "--disable-static" builds

[Tom Tromey]

The following reply was made to PR libgcj/221; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
To: bryce@albatross.co.nz
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com, Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: libgcj/221: link failure with multilib and/or "--disable-static" builds
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 09:17:07 -0700 (PDT)

 Bryce> Build libffi as a shared library?
 Bryce> Hack libffi's Makefile so that libffi.a is allways built?
 
 We can solve this by building libffi as a convenience library.
 Then we let libtool do the hard work.
 
 But then we run up against the automake version problem.
 Grr.
 
 Tom