Bug#277800: libant1.5-java: FTBFS: java.lang.NullPointerException

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Stefan Gybas wrote:
> Roland Stigge wrote:
> 
>> BUILD FAILED
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>    at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipOutputStream.writeCentralFileHeader 
>> (ZipOutputStream.java:588)
>>    at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipOutputStream.finish 
>> (ZipOutputStream.java:260)
>>    at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.close 
>> (DeflaterOutputStream.java:44)
>>    at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Zip.execute (Zip.java:453)
> 
> 
> This looks like a bug in Kaffe (or Kaffe's runtime classes) to me, which 
> is also responsible for the other FTBFS bugs that Roland has filed this 
> week.
> 
> Building the package with an older version of kaffe worked fine when I 
> originally built and uploaded the package in March.

I'm preparing a patch from Arnaud for inclusion into Kaffe. The patch is 
a merge of Classpath's zip code into Kaffe, and fixes his problems wrt 
jars on ppc. I hope it will fix the other Zip issues, too.

cheers,
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