OpenJDK zero on sparc linux

[Gary Benson]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > The real error is above this one -- it failed to build libjvm.so
> > with a load of "relocation truncated to fit" errors.  If you look
> > in openjdk-ecj/hotspot/build/linux/makefiles/gcc.make you'll see
> > a bit like this:
> > 
> >   # position-independent code
> >   ifneq ($(filter ppc ppc64,$(ZERO_LIBARCH)),)
> >   PICFLAG = -fPIC
> >   else
> >   PICFLAG = -fpic
> >   endif
> > 
> > Add "sparc" to that list, then
> > rm -Rf openjdk-ecj/control/build/linux-*/hotspot to clear out the
> > broken files, then try again.  If that works I'll commit a fix.
> 
> I think for a program of this size you'll probably want "big PIC"
> (-fPIC) everywhere.

Really?  I only touched the platforms I saw failures on, didn't want
to mess with anything else.

Cheers,
Gary

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