Re: [Sablevm-developer] new debian packages of sablevm and friends

[Grzegorz P. <ga...@de...>]

W li=B6cie z pon, 12-08-2002, godz. 07:23, Etienne M. Gagnon pisze:=20
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:47:49AM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> > I have added /usr/lib/sablevm/bin/java wrapper script - I have only
> The java wrapper didn't really work. I had to run update-alternatives
> by hand, and it linked to /usr/bin/sablevm instead of
> /usr/lib/sablevm/bin/java.
sablevm 1.0.1-3 is uploaded to debian.sente.pl - I fixed it there
I also added manual page java.sablevm.1.gz which is linke thru
alternatives to java.1.gz when you have sablevm 'java' wrapper choosen.

> Then I tried to run HelloWorld.jar but it failed, with something like
> classnotfound.  (I am too tired to remember at this point).
Not sure if that's really script's fault.
with jikes I compiled HelloWorld.java to .class and when I try to
run it using sablevm, I am getting:

greg@greg:~$ sablevm -Y ./HelloWorld.class=20
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ./HelloWorld.class
	at gnu.java.lang.SystemClassLoader.findClass(SystemClassLoader.java:73)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:308)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:259)
	at java.lang.VirtualMachine.main(VirtualMachine.java:79)

I think I am doing sth. wrong. Could you please send me your
HelloWorld.jar file (to private addr)?
How should I run it using sablevm (not java wrapper)?
If it runs with sablevm from debs and you can tell me how to run it -
then fixing the wrapper should be trivial.

> > I don't know how to run javadoc. The classes are in place but
> > which one is the starting one? I'd like to fix javadoc and add
> > it to alternatives. (try to run just /usr/lib/sablevm/bin/javadoc)
OK, I found cp-tools project http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cp-tools/
I'll probably package some of these tools too, as they will give us
ability to have wrappers for:
javadoc, javah, javap, serialver

(com.sun.javadoc _really_ should be moved there, to gjdoc source tree,
as it seems to be kinda unusable in classpath alone)

However - those files (in cp-tools) were checked into cvs only once,
9 months ago and weren't touched since then. oh - if they work - then
no problem...

> On the "running ant" side, I got Method.invoke() working.  Now it asks
> for Class.getMethods() and Method.getArguments().  These are not
> difficult to implement. per se (as SableVM already has all this
> information in its internal data structures), But it is painfully long
> to write, as you have to take care of array, class, and interface
> types, as well as static, virtual and interface methods.  So this will
> get done *after* my thesis, have I decided.  (Unless somebody else
> wants to do it).
When do you plan to finish them and get the time to fix this?
(no pressure, just would like to know)

> Thanks for all your work.
And vice versa.

Best regards

						Grzegorz B. Prokopski

PS: Looking at all gnu-java related CVS trees - I am getting really worried=
,
as it looks like there's no real development being made. Times 'since last
update' are weeks at best - usually months and sometimes years. A lot of
features has only it's stub files put into CVS with no further action.
And where's awt/swing development? I hardly see any.

Can we really count on that GNU Classpath will be THE Classpath for
free software java projects? What do you think?