Compiling Kaffe 1.0b4 on Win96/CYGWIN/ make check fails

[jim hopper]

Phil,

thanks for thinking about me!  My problem turned out to be user 
stupidity.  i did nt know how it was supposed to work.  my failure is 
that i get no printout of any kind when running java classes. they 
don't barf, or otherwise indicate a problem, they just fail to print 
anything out.  i thought the out file was the output, but its 
actually the expected results, its the fail file which in my case is 
blank that has my output.

I havent gotten back to lok at why yet. someone suggested trying 
jikes as the java compiler.  i tried to build it but it wants wchar.h 
and won't even configure because i don't have it even though i set 
the system up to -DNO_WCHAR.  so i dropped that for now.  i am going 
to mod native_methods.c to have it do the printout of what it gets so 
i can debug the sysdepCallMethods without getting any java output.

best jim

At 2:16 PM -0500 8/17/99, Phil Kelly wrote:
>Could the line end problem also be what Jim Hopper was seeing the 
>other day on Powerpc?  I'm not sure what type of line-ends it 
>produces, but at one point he said:
>
>"jim hopper on Fri, 13 Aug 1999 was captured by our super secret 
>microphone saying":
> >Now i really have a mystery. when i do make check i get like
> >
> >PASS: HelloWorldApp.class.save
> >FAIL: HelloWorldApp.java
> >FAIL: TestIntLong.java
> >PASS: TestFloatDouble.java
> >FAIL: DoublePrint.java
> >FAIL: DoubleComp.java
> >
> >but if i look in HelloWorldApp.java at end where it gives expected
> >results and compare it with whats in HelloWorldApp.out expected
> >results match actual results, but for some reason it being shown as
> >failed. i looked at the first six or so and all seem to pass when
> >you look at the *.out files. to weird! Perhaps this port is in better
> >shape than i though. perhaps i need a newer make or something, i
> >will download make from gnu site and build it.>
>
>So, maybe the output of the script and the "sed'ing" need to both have
>their line-ends stripped before comparison?
>
>
>
>"Earlier today Alexandre Oliva wrote":
> >
> > On Jul 13, 1999, Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin at geocities.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've attached a patch which fixes it.
> >
> > I couldn't find any patch, but I worked it out anyway.
> >
> > > Now HelloWorldApp can be compiled and run. However, its output contains
> > > dos-style line ends, while the expected output (produced by sed) is in
> > > unix style.
> > > Thus, "cmp" finds the difference and the test fails.
> >
> > Yup.  I found out filtering the program output through `grep .', that
> > removes `\r's.
> >
> > --
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>Phil Kelly
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