[kaffe] Problem while building Kaffe

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Hemanth Kumar wrote:

>Hi All, 
>
>I am new to kaffe and I am facing few problem during
>building kaffe after successfully configuring.  I am
>using ARM9 cpu , gcc-3.0.4,kaffe-1.1.7 , I will not
>use gtk or X11because it is console based embedded
>device,
>             I am not getting any error but Kaffe is
>getting struct at this point, after giving make.
>
>Adding java source files from VM directory
>/opt/downloads/kaffe-1.1.7/libraries/javalib/vmspecific
>/usr/local/bin/jikes +Pno-switchcheck +Pno-shadow +F
>-encoding UTF-8 -bootclasspath '' -extdirs ''
>-sourcepath '' --classpath
>/opt/downloads/kaffe-1.1.7/libraries/javalib/vmspecific:..:../external/w3c_dom:../external/sax:../external/relaxngDatatype:.:
>-d . @classes
>
>Please suggest me some remedy.  Thanks in Advance.
>  
>

Hi Hemanth,

are you building Kaffe on the ARM device? In that case, chances are 
you're hitting a bug in jikes
that only manifests itself on arm devices, and leads to jikes eating all 
memory and crashing.

I'd suggest either using a cross-compiler chain and building on a 
non-arm platform,  or
using a prebuilt rt.jar for kaffe 1.1.7, for example from the debian 
packages, and passing it to configure
using the respective configure script options. See configure --help for 
details.

cheers,
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