On 23 February 2012 15:59, Andrew Haley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/23/2012 02:55 PM, David Bosschaert wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This is probably a bit of a n00b question. However someone here might >> know the answer to this. >> When I try to build JDK 8 on Fedora 16 I'm getting the link error below. >> The environment variables I have set are: >> ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true >> ALT_BOOTDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk >> LANG=C >> >> BTW I do have the latest libstdc++ installed: >> $ sudo yum install libstdc++ >> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit >> Setting up Install Process >> Package libstdc++-4.6.2-1.fc16.i686 already installed and latest version >> Nothing to do >> >> Anyone know how to fix this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> David > > This happens when the build has failed for some other reason. Go into > the product directory and delete the libjvm.so symlink and try "make > hotspot" again. > > Andrew.
It keeps failing. What how can I find out what the other reason for failing is? Could it be related to this message? Linking vm... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status which is a bit odd given that I have the latest libstdc++ installed... Cheers, David
