gcj static builds are failing

Marco Trudel mtrudel@gmx.ch
Wed Jan 10 19:35:00 GMT 2007


Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> Andrew> At the moment we determine the availability of libmagic at libgcj
> Andrew> build time.  This is wrong, because even if libmagic is present when
> Andrew> gcj is built, it isn't necessarily present when libgcj apps are built,
> Andrew> and vice versa.
> 
> I don't agree with this.  I think it is safe to assume that whatever
> we discover at configure time is true for the lifetime of the libgcj
> install.

What about deploying the compiler binaries to users (as mingw, cygwin, 
Mohan or I do)? Or what about cross compilations where the host will be 
something different?


> I can't think of a case anywhere in GCC where we do
> something different than this.
> 
> Tom
> 



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