Re: libjava and raw_cxx

Andrew Haley <[email protected]> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Andrew Haley <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>> Why is the libjava directory configured with raw_cxx?
>>>>
>>>> Makefile.def:151:target_modules = { module= libjava; raw_cxx=true; };
>>>>
>>>> The problem with this is that it keeps the libtool test for dynamic
>>>> linker characteristics from working properly, due to the undefined
>>>> reference to __gxx_personality_v0 which is defined in libstdc++.
>>> We don't want libstdc++ linked in libgcj.
>>>
>>> If the libtool test wants libstdc++, then it's up to the libtool test
>>> to include libstdc++.  Nobody else wants it.
>> 
>> It's not libtool that wants it, but gcc, by generating the reference to
>> __gxx_personality_v0.
>
> Well, yes.  I don't quite see your point.

It's a generic link test, independent of the language that the compiler
accepts.  It just assumes that the compiler works.

Andreas.

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