Problems in building Kaffe-1.0.b with static libraries

Boris Zemlyak borisz at lsil.com
Wed Nov 11 05:50:48 PST 1998


Danny Hendler writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I'm about to run some profiling tests on Kaffe with gprof. For this, I
 > need
 > to rebuild kaffe with the -pg option. However, the profiling option does
 > not
 > live well with dynamic libraries. Consequently I ran "./configure
 > --with_staticlib"
 > to opt for static libraries, and then activated gmake.
 > 
 > Compiling went throuth o.k., but the linker (ld) failed with 2 problems:
 > 
 > 1. It reported unresolved error on numerous (maybe all?) awt functions
 > 2. It printed: "DYNAMIC boostrapping not available. use -Bstatic"
 > 
 > Has anyone got any idea how to solve/circumvent this problem?
When you configure kaffe for build use '--with-staticlib' option,
this will cause Kaffe to be built without dinamic libraries.
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks in advance,
 > 
 > Danny.
 > 
 > 
 > 
Boris



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