Problems in building Kaffe-1.0.b with static libraries

Danny Hendler dannyh at taux01.nsc.com
Wed Nov 11 06:23:50 PST 1998


Boris,

If you'll read my e-mail again you'll see that I DID use
this option. This option causes the linker problems
I mentioned.

Regards,

Danny.

Boris Zemlyak wrote:

> 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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