Re: PATCH: PR libjava/32078: Update libtool in classpath

[Andrew Haley]

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?

Andrew.