Re: Solaris Install problem with Java Swarm (was Re: Assertion failed: __objc_class_hash with Swarm 2.2 snapshot

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "Kent" == Vidrine II,C Kent <address@hidden> writes:

CKV> OK, it took some fiddling, but I was finally able to get the
CKV> 2002-05-14 snapshot to compile and run on Solaris 8 on SPARC
CKV> hardware. I'm writing this as feedback to the Swarm community
CKV> with a few lessons learned.

CKV> I used the following software components:

CKV> * gcc 3.0.2 with the objc.diffs patch from Jan 10, 2002 * blt
CKV> 2.4y with the blt*.tcl files accessible through the BLT_LIBRARY
CKV> environment variable * tcl/tk 8.3.4 * xpm 3.4k * zlib 1.1.3 *
CKV> libpng 1.0.6 * jdk 1.4.0 * emacs 21.1 * binutils 2.9.1 * GNU sed
CKV> 3.0.2 * gperf 2.7 * hdf5 1.4.8

CKV> My Swarm development language is Java and I'm using the Sun Java
CKV> compiler and runtime environment.

CKV> I had major issues getting the swarm.jar to build properly. The
CKV> Swarm compilation to native code went just fine. The part of the
CKV> build that uses emacs to run java-stub.el, where the Java stubs
CKV> get built, failed if I tried to build Swarm with any version of
CKV> gcc except 3.0.2 with the patch. Previous postings on this
CKV> mailing list made it quite clear that 3.0.2 with the patch was
CKV> necessary. Getting gcc 3.0.2 to build was the major time sink
CKV> because I kept running into issues with the assembler and
CKV> linker.

Thanks for the feedback on building it on Solaris.  Perhaps we can
convince Paul Johnson to include it in a FAQ.  I will try and lodge it
on savannah as a followup to another bug report.  

(Incidentally, if you think it is bug, please don't hesitate to file
it with our bug manager on Savannah:

 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=swarm

)

A.
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