Makefile.am (libgcj_convenience.la): New target.

2002-06-04  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)

	* Makefile.am (libgcj_convenience.la): New target.
	(libgcj.la): Depend on libgcj_convenience.la.
	* Makefile.in: Regenerated.

From-SVN: r54268

libjava/ChangeLog

 2002-06-04  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)
 
+	* Makefile.am (libgcj_convenience.la): New target.
+	(libgcj.la): Depend on libgcj_convenience.la.
+	* Makefile.in: Regenerated.
+
+2002-06-04  H.J. Lu  (hjl@gnu.org)
+
 	* configure.in (--with-newlib): New option:
 	Check ${with_newlib} instead of ${with_cross_host} for newlib.
 	(HAVE_PROC_SELF_EXE): Defined to 1 only for cross compiling to

libjava/Makefile.am

@@ -222,10 +222,16 @@ $(javao_files) $(x_javao_files): %.lo: %.java
 	$(GCJCOMPILE) -o $@ $<
 
 ## Pass the list of object files to libtool in a temporary file to 
-## avoid tripping platform command line length limits.
-libgcj.la: $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) $(libgcj_la_DEPENDENCIES)
+## avoid tripping platform command line length limits. We also use
+# libgcj_convenience.la to avoid creating a long linker command line
+# which causes problems on some OSes and makes it almost impossible to
+# debug the linker under a debugger.
+libgcj_convenience.la: $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) $(libgcj_la_DEPENDENCIES)
 	@: $(shell echo Creating list of files to link...) $(shell rm -f libgcj.objectlist || :) $(shell touch libgcj.objectlist) $(foreach object,$(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) $(libgcj_la_LIBADD),$(shell echo $(object) >> libgcj.objectlist))
-	$(libgcj_la_LINK) -objectlist libgcj.objectlist \
+	$(libgcj_la_LINK) -objectlist libgcj.objectlist
+
+libgcj.la: libgcj_convenience.la
+	$(libgcj_la_LINK) libgcj_convenience.la \
 	@GCLIBS@ @LIBFFI@ @ZLIBS@ \
 	-rpath $(toolexeclibdir) $(libgcj_la_LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
 

libjava/Makefile.in

@@ -3272,9 +3272,15 @@ $(c_files): java/lang/fdlibm.h java/lang/ieeefp.h java/lang/mprec.h
 $(javao_files) $(x_javao_files): %.lo: %.java
 	$(GCJCOMPILE) -o $@ $<
 
-libgcj.la: $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) $(libgcj_la_DEPENDENCIES)
+# libgcj_convenience.la to avoid creating a long linker command line
+# which causes problems on some OSes and makes it almost impossible to
+# debug the linker under a debugger.
+libgcj_convenience.la: $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) $(libgcj_la_DEPENDENCIES)
 	@: $(shell echo Creating list of files to link...) $(shell rm -f libgcj.objectlist || :) $(shell touch libgcj.objectlist) $(foreach object,$(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) $(libgcj_la_LIBADD),$(shell echo $(object) >> libgcj.objectlist))
-	$(libgcj_la_LINK) -objectlist libgcj.objectlist \
+	$(libgcj_la_LINK) -objectlist libgcj.objectlist
+
+libgcj.la: libgcj_convenience.la
+	$(libgcj_la_LINK) libgcj_convenience.la \
 	@GCLIBS@ @LIBFFI@ @ZLIBS@ \
 	-rpath $(toolexeclibdir) $(libgcj_la_LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)