The libgcj testsuite is failing substantially all tests that require linking libgcj.a on arm-elf because of missing symbols.
This failure started to occur sometime between 2005/02/13 and 2005/02/16. There are about 5000 lines of error messages for each link command: the total testrun log is about 1.5GBytes in size! /work/rearnsha/gnu/egcs/arm-elf/libjava/testsuite/../../libjava/.libs/libgcj.a(jni.o): In function `_Jv_JNI_GetAnyMethodID<0u>': /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/jni.cc:730: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer(java::lang::String*)' /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/jni.cc:736: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::class$' /work/rearnsha/gnu/egcs/arm-elf/libjava/testsuite/../../libjava/.libs/libgcj.a(jni.o): In function `_Jv_JNI_GetAnyMethodID<1u>': /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/jni.cc:730: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer(java::lang::String*)' /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/jni.cc:736: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::class$' /work/rearnsha/gnu/egcs/arm-elf/libjava/testsuite/../../libjava/.libs/libgcj.a(link.o): In function `_Jv_Linker::find_field(java::lang::Class*, java::lang::Class*, _Jv_Utf8Const*, _Jv_Utf8Const*)': /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/link.cc:178: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer()' /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/link.cc:202: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer()' /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/link.cc:197: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::class$' /work/rearnsha/gnu/egcs/arm-elf/libjava/testsuite/../../libjava/.libs/libgcj.a(link.o): In function `_Jv_Linker::search_method_in_class(java::lang::Class*, java::lang::Class*, _Jv_Utf8Const*, _Jv_Utf8Const*)': /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/link.cc:471: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer()' /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/link.cc:478: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::class$' /work/rearnsha/gnu/egcs/arm-elf/libjava/testsuite/../../libjava/.libs/libgcj.a(link.o): In function `_Jv_GetMethodString(java::lang::Class*, _Jv_Method*, java::lang::Class*)': /home/rearnsha/gnusrc/egcs-cross/libjava/link.cc:684: undefined reference to `java::lang::StringBuffer::StringBuffer(java::lang::String*)' etc. -- Summary: [4.0 Regression] link errors building libgcj tests Product: gcc Version: 4.0.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P2 Component: libgcj AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org,java-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC target triplet: arm-elf http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20160