[kaffe] Jython

[Dalibor Topic]

Guilhem Lavaux wrote:
> Timothy Stack wrote:
> 
>> hi guys,
>>
>> CVS update and try again...  I'm able to run it, but I get an 
>> occasional 'java.io.IOError: Bad file descriptor', haven't looked into 
>> it though. 
>> Also, it turns out the installer they use is broken and doesn't check 
>> for errors when loading images.  So, if kaffe doesn't find a gif 
>> library during configure the installer will get stuck and take a long 
>> time to finally timeout.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> tim
>>  
>>
> Thank you for fixing that, it is a lot better. However, I still get two 
> errors: when I instally
> jython kaffe crashes just before the end of the installation with an 
> assertion failed on
> jthread_disable_stop (but _this_ is maybe an old issue), and WidgetsDemo 

yeah, that's an old issue. see these threads: 
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-January/041136.html
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-January/041139.html
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-January/041179.html

the proposed resolution:
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-January/041194.html

another way to solve this may be to switch over to Classpath's 
serialization code.

cheers,
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