JIT on Netwinder

[Godmar Back]

I don't remember the details, but the problem is essentially with some 
of the installed libraries (png, jpeg, gif, ...).  
I think we had to recompile them with -fPIC.

Unfortunately, with libtool still in the way, I have no idea how you'd
do that in 1.0.6.

	- Godmar

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use Kaffe 1.0.6 on Netwinder.
> 
> There is no problem to run it after configuring with option --with-engine=intrp.
> 
> When I configure Kaffe with option either --with-engine=jit or --with-engine=
> jit3 the
> following error occurs during Kaffe launching regardless of using --with-pic
> option:
>      BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: ../sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h: 450:
> elf_machine_rel:    Assertion `! "unexpected dynamic reloc type"' failed!
> This problem is described on
> http://www.netwinder.org/cgi-bin/faq.cgi?req=show&file=faq02.024.htp
> 
> When I configure with options --with-staticvm --with-engine=jit  I got error on
> Kaffe launching:
> Illegal instruction. Core dumped.
> 
> When I configured with options --with-engine=jit and changed line
>      #if 1 /* defined(NO_SHARED_VMLIBRARY) */
> on
>      #if 0
> in file config\arm\trampolines.c we got the same error:
>      Illegal instruction. Core dumped.
> 
> It seems it fails in
>      JNI_CreateJavaVM(&vm, &env, &vmargs);
> 
> Is it possible to enable JIT in Kaffe under Netwinder?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Sergey Voitseh
> 
>