I tried installing the new swarm image. First errors I got told me that part of the install was created in the future, so I waited 10 minutes until the differences in time zones had been compensated for.
Next, I used ./configure with the commands --with-jdkdir and --with-ffidir. Typed make, it went for a while and then I got the following:
# >>>>>> "MP" == Miles Parker <address@hidden> writes:
>
>MP> So far I can't get it to work with the IBM JDK
>
>Ok, IBM JDK is working for me now. In IBM JDK, primitive types
>objects aren't available via JNI requests, so some slight of hand was
>needed to get that info. Unfortunately, Visual Age still has deeper
>problems (some of them have to do with Cygwin).
>
>The new snapshot at:
>
> ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/testing/swarm-1999-09-28.tar.gz
>
>Since the snapshot on the Saturday, these things are fixed:
>
> 1) Swarm runs with IBM JDK for Linux
> 2) A dependency glitch that shows up with building with libffi
> (e.g. LinuxPPC, Irix) is fixed.
> 3) GUI models that end (e.g. mousetrap)
> don't get stuck if you press stop after they are finished.
> 4) The bug Greg Lewis ran into with Java stub processing
> and source tree builds is fixed.
>
>
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