[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41652] Octave builds but crashes when trying to use gcj for java support

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41652>

                 Summary: Octave builds but crashes when trying to use gcj for
java support
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Thu 20 Feb 2014 09:01:41 PM EST
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.0
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

    _______________________________________________________

Details:

When building and testing Octave using gcj as the JRE, building succeeds but
crashes at runtime or when running the test suite. On Debian x86-64,


$ ../configure JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj
...
$ make all
$ make check
...
  build-gcj/libinterp/octave-value/ov-class.cc-tst ............panic: Aborted
-- stopping myself...
octave exited with signal 6


Under gdb, the backtrace shows the error is occurring inside of the
JNI_CreateJavaVM function.

I wonder if something could be done in the configure script to try to
initialize the JVM from a test program and try to catch this error there? I'll
see if I can get the same crash to occur with a simple stub test program.




    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41652>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via/by Savannah
  http://savannah.gnu.org/