kaffe-1.0.b3 regression dispatchException error on NT4 / CYGWIN

[Godmar Back]

 make sure you don't have Sun's classes.zip in your CLASSPATH.

> 
> I can't get kaffe-1.0.b3 to run the regression tests on NT4 / CYGWIN
> after a successful make (no options)--not even HelloWorldApp.
> 
> Here's a trace:
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> bash-2.02$ make test
> *** Running tests
> error running
>   Should have got:
> Hello World!
>   But got instead:
> Hello World!
> HelloWorldApp ... error compiling
> It's not ThreadDeath, and there's no exception handler.
>  This is something I cannot handle.
> TestIntLong ... error compiling
> It's not ThreadDeath, and there's no exception handler.
>  This is something I cannot handle.
> 
> ..[others deleted]
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> I copied HelloWorldApp.class.save to .class and tried
> again:
> 
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> bash-2.02$ kaffe HelloWorldApp
> It's not ThreadDeath, and there's no exception handler.
>  This is something I cannot handle.
> bash-2.02$ java HelloWorldApp
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> 
> The message is coming from kaffe/kaffevm/exception.c in
> dispatchException()--apparently a java/lang/NoSuchMethodError 
> is being thrown which it can't handle. 
> 
> I'll continue poking around, but does anyone have an idea what's 
> going on, or where to start looking?
> 
> Jim Flowers / Align Inc.
> flowers at aligninc.com 
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