compiling mlvm: error rebuilding libjava.dylib

[Christian Thalinger]

On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 16:52 -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> I'm getting an error re-building mlvm on MacOS 10.5.8 (haven't tried it on another os yet).
> 
> I'm using this script when I rebuild: http://gist.github.com/243072
> 
> This build script last worked fine at the end of November -- the only changes I have made since then are to console output.
> 
> After finishing the parallel compiles for jdk and starting to rebuild libjava.dylib:
> 
> Done with parallel compiles: /Users/stephen/dev/java/src/bsd-port/jdk/make/java/java
> STATS: LIBRARY=java, PRODUCT=java, OPTIMIZATION_LEVEL=HIGHER
> Rebuilding /Users/stephen/dev/java/src/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/lib/i386/libjava.dylib because of 
> /Users/stephen/dev/java/src/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/tmp/java/java.lang/java/obj/.files_compiled
> 
> ld reports the following error rebuilding libjava.dylib:
> 
>    libfdlibm.i586.a, archive has no table of contents
> 
> ld: in /Users/stephen/dev/java/src/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/tmp/java/fdlibm/obj/libfdlibm.i586.a, archive has no table of 
> contents
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [/Users/stephen/dev/java/src/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/lib/i386/libjava.dylib] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [jdk-build] Error 2
> make: *** [build_product_image] Error 2
> [1]+  Done                    rm -i -rf build.del
> 
> The complete gcc invocation for rebuilding libjava.dylib can be seen here: http://gist.github.com/273127
> 
> Any ideas where I should look further?

I've never seen this error.  What happens when you try to print the
archive contents manually (with: ar t <archive>)?

-- Christian