This came up during a conversation at the Tools Cauldron in Praha,
with David (Malcolm) I believe, I apparently did not commit the
local change then.
Applied now.
Gerald
Index: faq.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/faq.html,v
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diff -u -r1.225 faq.html
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@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
<li><a href="#rpath">libstdc++/libio tests fail badly with
--enable-shared</a></li>
<li><a href="#gas">GCC can not find GNU as/GNU ld</a></li>
<li><a href="#environ">cpp: Usage:... Error</a></li>
- <li><a href="#iconv">Why does <code>libiconv</code> get linked into
<code>jc1</code> on Solaris?</a></li>
</ol></li>
<li><a href="#testsuite">Testsuite problems</a>
@@ -257,28 +256,6 @@
<hr />
-<h2><a name="iconv">Why does <code>libiconv</code> get linked into
<code>jc1</code> on Solaris?</a></h2>
-
-<p>The Java front end requires <code>iconv</code>. If the compiler
-used to bootstrap GCC finds <code>libiconv</code> (because the GNU
-version of <code>libiconv</code> has been installed in the same prefix
-as the bootstrap compiler), but the newly built GCC does not find the
-library (because it will be installed with a different prefix), then a
-link-time error will occur when building <code>jc1</code>. This
-problem does not show up so often on platforms that have
-<code>libiconv</code> in a default location (like
-<code>/usr/lib</code>) because then both compilers can find a library
-named <code>libiconv</code>, even though it is a different
-library.</p>
-
-<p>Using <code>--disable-nls</code> at configure-time does not
-prevent this problem because <code>jc1</code> uses
-<code>iconv</code> even in that case. Solutions include temporarily
-removing the GNU <code>libiconv</code>, copying it to a default
-location such as <code>/usr/lib/</code>, and using
-<code>--enable-languages</code> at configure-time to disable Java.</p>
-
-<hr />
<a name="testsuite"></a>
<h1>Testsuite problems</h1>
