3.2.3-pre tarball 2: libjava build still fails on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Wed Apr 23 22:27:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I find this reasoning interesting...  It is as libtool-related as
> make-related and shell-related, if you ask me.  I mean, you're
> starting from a shell, right?  And it is make that starts libtool,
> right?  And libtool starts the linker, right?  And the linker fails
> because it's buggy.  So...  It's pretty obvious that it's libtool's
> fault, right? :-D

If the command that fails is libtool, and libtool has redirected the
error to /dev/null, and it's intermittent and unreproduceable, well,
I'm afraid that libtool will be considered guilty until proven innocent.

I realize that getting libtool to work right and portably is a tough job.



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