[kaffe] kaffe 1.1.3 on Darwin 6.8 fails

[Michael Franz]

Ric,

Kaffe on Darwin/OS X has never worked as long as I have been trying to 
use it.  The fact that it compiles is good, but there is something 
wrong with the resulting VM.  I have spent some time trying to get it 
working, but my time is limited.  I have not made much progress.  I 
think it is either the threading or the memory management.  I would 
very much like to see it working again!

Michael

On Sunday, April 18, 2004, at 04:54 PM, Riccardo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I tried to compile kaffe 1.1.3 form the .tar.gz since that is the
> version from darwinports.
>
> However:
> 140 of 144 tests failed
> Please report to kaffe at kaffe.org
>
>
> and looking... compiling just doesn't work:
> java.lang.ClassFormatError: truncated class
>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0 (ClassLoader.java)
>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass (ClassLoader.java:179)
>    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass (SecureClassLoader.
> java:33)
>    at kaffe.lang.AppClassLoader$JarSource.findClass 
> (AppClassLoader.java:
> 143)
>    at kaffe.lang.AppClassLoader.findClass (AppClassLoader.java:291)
>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass (ClassLoader.java:142)
>
>
> I hvae only one suspect, but it may be a false alarm. After
> decompressing .tar.gz I found one @LongLink file, this means that with
> one file gnu tar made a mess. It is a single case, it would be really
> bad luck. I have BSD tar and I would start advising to use BSD tar for
> kaffe distribution instead of buggy GNU crap. In any case, the guys at
> darwinports.. have BSD tar too!!!
>
> -Ric
>
>
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