Can't install libgcj on solaris

Maksim Lin maksim@swin.edu.au
Thu Apr 8 20:15:00 GMT 1999


Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> Anthony> There appears to be a bug in the build system.  I get the
> Anthony> same error if I try to configure and make in the same
> Anthony> directory as the source code.
> 
> Anthony> A work around, for now, is to configure/make in a different
> Anthony> directory.
> 
> FWIW this workaround is documented on the libgcj page.
> 
> I haven't investigated why srcdir==builddir builds don't work.  I
> believe it has to do with recent symlink-tree-related changes made in
> egcs.
> 
> I'm probably not going to fix this, since it isn't very important to
> me.
> 
> Tom

Well it says in the egcs (in 1.1.1 that I have) docs (one of the
README's I think) that using srcdir=builddir is neither tested nor
recommended so its probably best to leave it as is.

Maksim.
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