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Re: [Jikesrvm-core] automatic classpath download
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From: Steven A. <au...@us...> - 2003-10-18 00:17:24
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I'm impressed with Dave's work on jBuildClasspathJar. I had trouble too;
this time, it just built cleanly on its own. Wow!
Binary distribution: I have been looking into what it would take to put
together a binary RPM, but I'm getting a persistent internal error from
RPM itself in response to my sample .spec file. Not nice.
Documentation is confusing: I've done some rewriting and amplification of
the userguide section. Would one of you be willing to take a look at the
online userguide and tell me if the manual instructions seem adequate now?
--Steve A
John Leuner <je...@pi...>
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10/15/2003 06:54 PM
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> I have searched the web and cannot find a classpath rpm. I binary
> distribution would make life a lot easier.
>
If you are Debian user there are .debs available.
I had similar hassles to the ones you describe below.
> I tried to use the new system and blew a lot of time running into the
> following problems:
>
> 1. For reasons I do not understand, wget behaves very poorly over a
> slow connect---or could it be a firewall issue? I don't know...
> The upshot was the entire build stalled.
> Downloading GNU Classpath
> --17:18:41--
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.06.tar.gz
> => `classpath.tar.gz'
> Resolving alpha.gnu.org... done.
> Connecting to alpha.gnu.org[199.232.41.11]:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/gnu/classpath ... done.
> ==> PORT ... done. ==> RETR classpath-0.06.tar.gz ... done.
> <hangs here>
>
> 2. I ftp'd the file successfully (well inside a minute), and
> untarred it in /tmp. I then followed the instructions on the web
> page and set my CLASSPATH_ROOT to /tmp. I find this perverse.
> Why isn't the CLASSPATH_ROOT /tmp/classpath-0.06??
>
> ...anyway it didn't work. It apparently (silently) ignored my
> setting of CLASSPATH_ROOT and just tried (fruitlessly) to download
> the file.
>
> I eventually discovered that it was looking for stuff in
> $CLASSPATH_ROOT/classspath, not $CLASSPATH_ROOT/classpath-0.06.
>
> As I write this email, I discover that the instructions that I had
> so "carefully" followed on the userguide do actually ask me to
> rename the directory. But if you take a look, I think you'll
agree
> that the formatting of the text unfortunately makes it easy to
> miss! Argh!
>
> The above would all be solved if we just invited the user to tell
> us where the sources where, rather than telling us the parent of
> the directory with the sources in it, and then asking them to
> rename the directory from what they got when they untarred it.
>
> I the came up with the cunning idea of copying the classpath
> tarball to a local server and letting the build pick it up from
> there. I did that, found out the file I needed to change and
> lo and belhold it worked. But...
>
> 3. The machine I was working on did not have the gctk+ source files
> installed. So it died in a heap and my efforts were all for
> naught.
>
> OK. So you all can say I made some dumb mistakes and I'm incompetent.
>
> But I was super motivated----I need something done "yesterday", and am
> pretty well informed. I wonder sometimes how many potential users we
> lose because their first experience is like the one above and they don't
> have the stamina to work it through. A slightly depressing thought.
>
> My 2c worth. Now back to the thing I was trying to do an hour ago......
>
> --Steve
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