Re: [Sablevm-developer] Broken classes

[Ian R. <ir...@cs...>]

Hi Etienne,

> Have you tried upgrading to Jikes 1.13?  You can download it (source
> .tar.gz) from www.jikes.org (redirects to the long ibm url).

I haven't. TBH, I've had difficulty with all the latest autoconf, etc. I
usually try and avoid the bleeding edge and stick with more stable
distributions. WRT autoconf for some reason libtool isn't geting set up
properly, even tho' I've rebuilt that and everything else I'm missing
the necessary macro definitions. I'm sure I'll track the problem down in
the end. I'd have prefered not to have to, but I don't like having to
rely on the prebuilt configure script in the tgz. Ohwell..

The problems with java/text/BreakIterator.java are the references to
gnu.java.text.* which simply doesn't exist in the sablepath CVS tree. If
jikes 1.13 is building BreakIterator then it is more slack in allowing
classes to be built with undefined references in them than jikes 1.12.
Let me know your thoughts.

All the best,

Ian Rogers