On 10/23/2013 02:25 PM, Bill Speirs wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10/23/2013 01:54 PM, Bill Speirs wrote: >>> Can I compile these libraries without compiling the c, c++, and gcj compilers? >> >> No. But why would you want to? Just install the C compiler package >> for your OS. > > I have the C compiler package installed for my Ubuntu box; however, it > does not include the libgcj archives. I'm just looking to statically > compile a Java program on a 64-bit machine, so I need the 64-bit > libgcj archives. So, the right thing to do is rebuild GCC. This error message: configure: error: in `/tmp/gcc-output/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgomp': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables ... says that the C compiler installed does not work. You may need to use --disable-multilib. But have a look at config.log to see the problem. Andrew.