Bug#227741: kaffe FTBFS on buildd for ARM

[Dalibor Topic]

Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 
>> Barry Hawkins wrote:
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>>> Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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>>>
>>>>> Dalibor Topic wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> this may be fixed in 1.1.6-pre2/1.1.6 using ecj for building on 
>>>>>>> arm (and
>>>>>>> other platforms where jikes screws up royally, like mipsel). 
>>>>>>> Needs to be
>>>>>>> tried out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Shouldn't we use ecj for all the arches?
>>>
>>>
>>> Since it depends on gcj, I guess the dependency issues are similar to
>>> our other options, thought ecj is certainly more active than jikes, no?
>>
>>
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>> We need another upload, since there is a FTBFS on arm due to not found
>> ecj again. I'll try to merge in jit3 for Kaffe tonight from pocketlinux,
>> so that would fix the other FTBFS (sparc) too.
> 
> 
> Yep, arm is no problem - was a typo. For sparc we will use normal jit as a
> jit3 merge from pocketlinux would be a too big patch for 1.1.6 I assume.
> 
> And we should first get 1.1.6 as it is into testing ...
> 
> @Arnaud: I have uploaded a new kaffe revision which should fix the sparc,
>          arm and mips issue. If you think its ÒK it can be uploaded.
>          I wanted to wait for m68k first - however it seems kaffe builds
>          already for 2 days on m68k without and end ...
> 
> Wolfgang

OK, thanks! It turns out that jit3 is not much, file wise, but I need to 
test things a bit further.

cheers,
dalibor topic