On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:09:22PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > Paolo Bonzini writes: > > > > >>>> Certainly. Any compile-and-link tests won't work. > > >>> I'm sorry, I missed the "and link" part of your question. Configury > > >>> tests of this kind really aren't going to work. For things like tests > > >>> for PIC, it's pointless: gcj supports the same options as gcc. > > >> Then, does anybody know the very reason why all those tests are run > > >> repeatedly for each language? > > > > > > I will guess. It is because the C/C++/Java/Fortran/.. compilers may > > > not come from the same gcc version or based on gcc at all. > > > > Okay, so we have a problem. Because the patch you are proposing will > > not be accepted in any way by upstream. :-( > > How come we are doing this *now*? Why was it not a problem before, > and what has changed?
The old libtool in gcc has been heavily hacked to support building run-time libraries in gcc. The new libtool update removed most, if not all, of those hacks, which got us here. H.J.
