JDK 8 Linking error on Fedora 16

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 23 February 2012 19:31, David Bosschaert
> <david.bosschaert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23 February 2012 16:26, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On 02/23/2012 04:23 PM, David Bosschaert wrote:
> >>> 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...
> >>
> >> Yes, that's it.  The problem is probably that it's trying to link
> >> statically with libstdc++ and you have no static version of that
> >> library.
> >>
> >> Andrew.
> >>
> >
> > Turns out that I had to install the static version separately, the
> > following did the trick:
> >  yum install libstdc++-static
> >
> > Thanks Andrew for this!
> >
> > David
> 
> I've documented all the steps to build OpenJDK 8 on Fedora 16 here:
> http://coderthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/02/building-project-penrose-or-openjdk-8.html
> 
> Feel free to include this in the build page
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html
> whenever that gets brought to life.
> 

Passing STATIC_CXX="false" will also work and is preferable.  This is what we do in IcedTea.

> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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