I'm trying a bootstrap build of 4.4.3 on a i686-Slackware-12.2 box. I successfully built on a similar box. I'm using default CFLAGS and configure with:
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --with-gnu-as --enable-shared --with-gnu-ld --enable-threads=posix --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/ecj.jar --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc The build dies with: libtool: compile: /home/ronis/objdir/./gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc -B/home/ronis/objdir/./gcc -nostdinc++ -L/home/ronis/objdir/i6 86-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src -L/home/ronis/objdir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ - B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/include -isystem /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sys-include -DHAVE_CONFIG _H -I. -I../../../gcc/libjava -I./include -I./gcj -I../../../gcc/libjava -Iinclude -I../../../gcc/libjava/include -I../../../g cc/libjava/classpath/include -Iclasspath/include -I../../../gcc/libjava/classpath/native/fdlibm -I../../../gcc/libjava/../boeh m-gc/include -I../boehm-gc/include -I../../../gcc/libjava/libltdl -I../../../gcc/libjava/libltdl -I../../../gcc/libjava/.././l ibjava/../gcc -I../../../gcc/libjava/../zlib -I../../../gcc/libjava/../libffi/include -I../libffi/include -fno-rtti -fnon-call -exceptions -fdollars-in-identifiers -Wswitch-enum -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -ffloat-store -fomit-frame-pointer -Usun -Wextra -Wa ll -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -DTOOLEXECLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -DJAVA_HOME=\"/usr\" -DBOOT_CLASS_PATH=\"/usr/share/java/libg cj-4.4.3.jar\" -DJAVA_EXT_DIRS=\"/usr/share/java/ext\" -DGCJ_ENDOR SED_DIRS=\"/usr/share/java/gcj-endorsed\" -DGCJ_VERSIONED_LIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/gcj-4.4.3-10\" -DPATH_SEPARATOR=\":\" -DECJ_JAR_FILE=\"/usr/share/java/ecj.jar\" -DLIBGCJ_DEFAULT_DATABASE=\"/usr/lib/gcj-4.4.3-10/classmap.db\" -DLIBGCJ_DEFAULT_DATABASE_PATH_TAIL=\"gcj-4.4.3-10/classmap.db\" -g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -MT posix-threads.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/posix-threads.Tpo -c ../../../gcc/libjava/posix-threads.cc -o posix-threads.o >/dev/null 2>&1 here=`pwd`; cd ../../../gcc/libjava/classpath/lib; \ find gnu java javax org sun -name .svn -prune -o -name '*.class' -print | \ gjar -cfM@ $here/libgcj-4.4.3.jar jar: internal error: java.lang.NullPointerException at gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Creator.writeCommandLineEntries(libgcj-tools.so.10) at gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Creator.run(libgcj-tools.so.10) at gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Main.run(libgcj-tools.so.10) at gnu.classpath.tools.jar.Main.main(libgcj-tools.so.10) make[3]: *** [libgcj-4.4.3.jar] Error 1 gjar --version gives jar (GNU Classpath) 0.98. Any chance this is related to bug 41472? -- Summary: 4.4.3 build failure: jar: internal error: Product: gcc Version: 4.4.3 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P3 Component: java AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: ronis at ronispc dot chem dot mcgill dot ca http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42849