JDK 8 Linking error on Fedora 16

[David Bosschaert]

On 23 February 2012 15:59, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 02:55 PM, David Bosschaert wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is probably a bit of a n00b question. However someone here might
>> know the answer to this.
>> When I try to build JDK 8 on Fedora 16 I'm getting the link error below.
>> The environment variables I have set are:
>>   ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true
>>   ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk
>>   LANG=C
>>
>> BTW I do have the latest libstdc++ installed:
>>   $ sudo yum install libstdc++
>>   Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>>   Setting up Install Process
>>   Package libstdc++-4.6.2-1.fc16.i686 already installed and latest version
>>   Nothing to do
>>
>> Anyone know how to fix this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>
> This happens when the build has failed for some other reason.  Go into
> the product directory and delete the libjvm.so symlink and try "make
> hotspot" again.
>
> Andrew.

It keeps failing. What how can I find out what the other reason for failing is?

Could it be related to this message?
  Linking vm...
  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
which is a bit odd given that I have the latest libstdc++ installed...

Cheers,

David