Package: glibc
Severity: serious
Tags: sid
current mainline libgcj fails to build on mips{,el}:
/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc
-B/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/gcc/ -nostdinc++
-L/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/mipsel-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src
-L/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/mipsel-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs
-B/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/mipsel-linux-gnu/bin/
-B/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/mipsel-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem
/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/mipsel-linux-gnu/include -isystem
/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/mipsel-linux-gnu/sys-include -shared -nostdlib
/usr/lib/crti.o /home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/gcc/crtbeginS.o
.libs/libgcj.la-2.o -Wl,--whole-archive ../libffi/.libs/libffi_convenience.a
../boehm-gc/.libs/libgcjgc_convenience.a ./libltdl/.libs/libltdlc.a
-Wl,--no-whole-archive
-L/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/mipsel-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src
-L/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/mipsel-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs
-L/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/mipsel-linux-gnu/libjava
../libffi/.libs/libffi_convenience.a ../boehm-gc/.libs/libgcjgc_convenience.a
-lpthread ./libltdl/.libs/libltdlc.a -ldl -lz
-L/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/gcc -lgcc_s -lc -lgcc_s
/home/doko/gcc/gcc-snapshot-20041003/build/gcc/crtendS.o /usr/lib/crtn.o
-Wl,-soname -Wl,libgcj.so.6 -o .libs/libgcj.so.6.0.0
/usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(atexit.oS)(.text+0x38): In function `atexit':
: relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_CALL16 __cxa_atexit@@GLIBC_2.2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libgcj.la] Error 1
can be fixed by compiling glibc's atexit with -mxgot (at least that's
the way mozilla succeeded to build).