Hi, java is currently not bootstrapping on s390. The problem appears to be that the __ffssi libgcc function is not exported since it is not listed in libgcc-std.ver.
Here are the details: Building the gcj-dbtool linking against libgcj.so the following error is reported: /build2/gcc-4.3-build/gcc/gcj -B/build2/gcc-4.3-build/s390-ibm-linux-gnu/libjava/ -B/build2/gcc-4.3-build/gcc/ -g -O2 -o .libs/gcj-dbtool --main=gnu.gcj.tools.gcj_dbtool.Main -shared-libgcc gnu/gcj/tools/gcj_dbtool/natMain.o gnu/gcj/tools/.libs/gcj_dbtool.o -L/build2/gcc-4.3-build/s390-ibm-linux-gnu/libjava -L/build2/gcc-4.3-build/s390-ibm-linux-gnu/libjava/.libs ./.libs/libgcj.so -L/build2/gcc-4.3-build/s390-ibm-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src -L/build2/gcc-4.3-build/s390-ibm-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lz -L/build2/gcc-4.3-build/./gcc -lgcc_s -lc -lgcc_s -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/build2/gcc-4.3-install/lib /usr/bin/ld: .libs/gcj-dbtool: hidden symbol `__ffssi2' in /build2/gcc-4.3-build/./gcc/libgcc.a(_ffssi2.o) is referenced by DSO /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output The symbol __ffssi2 is used by closure.o in libffi_convenience.a. Which is linked into libgcj.so as well as the shared version of libgcc. Compared to the __ffsdi2 variant __ffssi2 is not exported in libgcc_s.so: 14: 000023cc 176 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 __ffsdi2@@GCC_3.0 200: 00002334 152 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 11 __ffssi2 212: 000023cc 176 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 __ffsdi2 To solve this I would simply add that symbol to libgcc-std.ver to have it exported in libgcc_s.so. What I'm curious about is why this didn't occur earlier?! The symbol is available since 2003 and I can hardly imagine that no platform was ever in need of it till now. If it is ok to simply add that symbol to libgcc-std.ver in which category it would belong? I see "# libgcc1 integer symbols" in that file. Would that be appropriate? Bye, -Andreas-