will it work?

[Godmar Back]

This problem is known and needs further debugging.  It is likely to be 
a prob with the specifics of Sparc/Linuxes setjmp/longjmp implementation.

	- Godmar

> 
> Hello!
> 
> I recently downloaded kaffe-1.0.b1-1.src.rpm, and it wont rebuild. I took
> the included kaffe-1.0.b1.tar.gz and got an executable that core dumps.
> 
> Are there any undocumented configure options to get it right?
> 
> The system is a sparcstation ipx running a glibc-based linux distribution
> (redhat 5.1).
> 
> Yours, Peter
> 
> 
> PS: I gave it another try and got me kaffe-snap.tar.gz
> 
> >[gnu at oasis kaffe-snap]$ gdb
> >GNU gdb 4.17
> >Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> >welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> >Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> >There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> >This GDB was configured as "sparc-redhat-linux".
> >(gdb) file /usr/local/bin/Kaffe
> >Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/Kaffe...done.
> >(gdb) run -v test/HelloWorldApp
> >Starting program: /usr/local/bin/Kaffe -v test/HelloWorldApp
> >Loading ... (...101 classes)
> >Loading java/util/MissingResourceException.class(/usr/local/share/kaffe/
> >Klasses.jar) [compressed]
> >
> >Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> >0xe00ebb44 in __longjmp ()
> >(gdb) 
> 
> Its always at the same address.
> 
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