[kaffe] failed regression tests

[Dalibor Topic]

--- Rob Gonzalez <rgonzale at wso.williams.edu> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> 
> > The NoClassDefFoundError is correct, I think.  The SecurityException is 
> > because a non-primordial class loader has found the class file and is 
> > trying to define the class.  However, the class file should only be in the 
> > boot class path and not the regular class path.  So, you should make sure 
> > that rt.jar is not in CLASSPATH.
> 
> thanks :)  i had stuck the rt.jar in my CLASSPATH a couple months ago for
> some side project i was working on and simply left it there.  i'm all set
> now.

brief, helpful and up-to-the-point responses to weird issues ... that means Tim
must be back from holidays ;)

> this actually means that my verifier is working correctly :)  i checked by
> using BCEL's JustIce verifier on at.dms.kjc.CCClassNameType and it
> rejected that class for the same reason.
> 
> i'm going to email the KJC folks about this and see what they think.  for
> now, i could simply change the printArgs method in CReferenceType to not
> be final so that we can run regression tests using KJC.  is it cool to
> change the KJC source in kafe CVS's source tree?

I think the right way is as you propose: to go ahead and fix kjc. But you
should check with jim first to see how far the effort to import kjc (and other
external jars) into kaffe's CVS has come. See
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-June/042806.html and please ignore
the following licensing discussion ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic

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