Re: [Sablevm-developer] Release progress - problems w/ 'make distcheck' of classpath

[Michael Koch]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:40:39PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 14:04, Michael Koch wrote:
> > > > *** Semantic Error: A candidate for type
> > > > "TransformerFactoryConfigurationError" was found, but it is invalid and
> > > > needs to be fixed before this type will successfully compile.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I guess some .java files aren't included in the tarball? or...?
> > > > 
> > > > Help w/ this issue would be greatly apprieciated.
> > > 
> > > Ugh, so it isn't my setup :{
> > > I get the same with a clean "upstream" classpath.
> > > Somehow one of the gnu jaxp .java files ends up in the root build dir!?!
> > > 
> > > I'll try to fix make distcheck for classpath soon (hopefully tonight).
> > > 
> >
> > I do "make distcheck" on a daily basis in the daily build scripts on
> > Patrick Reali's server. They dont broke. I do this here locally too on a
> > regular basis and didnt broke.
> > 
> > I think this error occurs because of the compiler used to compile to
> > bytecode is buggy or configure did something strange. classpath uses
> > jikes (1.18) here locally to compile to bytecode and this works great.
> 
> It wasn't the compiler. It seems to be my version of tar !?!?!
> I just downgraded tar from 1.13.92-4 to 1.13.25-6
> (Debian unstable to Debian testing version) and everything works again.
> 
> For some mysterious reason this newer version of tar puts
> classpath-0.07+cvs/external/jaxp/source/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactoryConfigurationError.java
> in the tar file as plain "TransformerFactoryConfigurationError.java"
> without any directory path. Can someone confirm that downgrading tar
> helps.
> 
> It sounds fishy, but maybe it is because this path is just one larger
> then 100 (101) characters. I read somewhere that tar handles file names
> longer then 100 chars special (and different depending on Posix/GNU/etc)

Ah, yes. There is discussion about buggy tar in Debian unstable and
broken debs on debian-devel lately.

> P.S. I get much further now, but at the end I get the following error:
> 
> ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
> ./native/fdlibm/DEPDIR
> ./native/fdlibm/=
> ./native/jni/classpath/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/classpath/=
> ./native/jni/java-awt/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/java-awt/=
> ./native/jni/java-io/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/java-io/=
> ./native/jni/java-lang/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/java-lang/=
> ./native/jni/java-net/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/java-net/=
> ./native/jni/java-nio/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/java-nio/=
> ./native/jni/java-util/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/java-util/=
> ./native/jni/gtk-peer/DEPDIR
> ./native/jni/gtk-peer/=
> make[1]: *** [distcleancheck] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/mark/src/classpath-obj/classpath-0.07+cvs/_build'
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 2
> 
> Still investigating.

Hmmm, I dont get that either. What versions of autoconf/automake/libtool
are you using ?


Michael