[Q] can't build libgcj on Solaris 2.6

[OYAMA Yoshihiro]

Hello.

I cannot build libgcj on Solaris 2.6/SPARC.

The error message I encountered is just the same as
what is found in one of the mails in the mailing-list archive.
The mail is sent on Wed, 9 Jun 1999 by Drury Tim, whose subject
is "RE: solaris, collect2 and ld."  It is attached to this mail.

I looked into the archive for the answer to his question, but
I could not find one.

When I tried to build libgcj, I used "my own gcc" compiled with the
configure options --with-ld=/usr/local/binutils/ld and --with-gnu-ld.

Could anyone please tell me how to solve the problem?
Should I show further information of my environment and configuration?

Thank you.

 > It's me again.  <groans from the audience>
 > 
 > Anthony suggested:
 > > > The trick is to configure egcs using 
 > > > --with-ld=/usr/tim/binutils/bin/ld
 > 
 > I replied:
 > > I'm rebuilding egcs now.  Should be done in a couple
 > > more hours.  zzzzzzzz.  Then I'll rebuild libgcj and
 > > see what results I get.
 > 
 > The latest:
 > Recompiled egcs with the above option.  Then I started
 > on the libgcj build.  I got past the error with collect2 
 > wanting to use /usr/ccs/bin/ld and now have the following 
 > problem.  Incidentally, this is the same problem I had 
 > when I temporarily replaced /usr/ccs/bin/ld with a symbolic 
 > link to the gnu linker.
 > 
 > -tim
 > 
 > How configure was called:
 > 
 > aries:/codebase/tim/libgcj-obj> ../libgcj-snapshot-1999-06-02/configure
 > --prefix=/backup/tim/egcs-1999.06.02 --enable-java-gc=boehm
 > --enable-fast-character --enable-threads=posix
 > --with-ld=/user/tim/binutils/bin/ld --with-gnu-as
 > 
 > Then I called "gmake" and got this build error:
 > 
 > c++ -shared  prims.lo jni.lo exception.lo gnu/gcj/convert/BytesToUnicode.lo
 > gnu/gcj/convert/Convert.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Input_8859_1.lo
 > gnu/gcj/convert/Input_EUCJIS.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Input_JavaSrc.lo
 > gnu/gcj/convert/Input_SJIS.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Input_UTF8.lo
 > gnu/gcj/convert/Output_8859_1.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Output_EUCJIS.lo
 > gnu/gcj/convert/Output_JavaSrc.lo gnu/gcj/convert/Output_SJIS.lo
 > gnu/gcj/convert/Output_UTF8.lo gnu/gcj/convert/UnicodeToBytes.lo
 > gnu/gcj/text/BaseBreakIterator.lo 
 > 
 > <whole bunch of .lo files removed>
 > 
 > java/lang/e_rem_pio2.lo java/lang/s_fabs.lo java/lang/w_pow.lo
 > java/lang/e_remainder.lo java/lang/s_floor.lo java/lang/w_remainder.lo
 > java/lang/e_scalb.lo java/lang/s_rint.lo java/lang/w_sqrt.lo
 > java/lang/e_sqrt.lo java/lang/s_scalbn.lo java/lang/sf_rint.lo
 > java/lang/k_cos.lo java/lang/s_sin.lo boehm.lo posix-threads.lo  -lc
 > -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgcj.so.0 -o .libs/libgcj.so.0.0.0
 > prims.lo: could not read symbols: Bad value
 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 > gmake[2]: *** [libgcj.la] Error 1
 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory
 > `/codebase/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava'
 > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory
 > `/codebase/tim/libgcj-obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/libjava'
 > gmake: *** [all-target-libjava] Error 2
 > aries:/codebase/tim/libgcj-obj>

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