running Java applications within kaffe (Re: [kaffe] shutdownHook changes broke the build)

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Dalibor Topic wrote:

> Dalibor Topic wrote:
>
>> hi Guilhem,
>>
>> I've just checked in a patch that fixed the remaining compilation 
>> problems for
>> me. It now builds fine for me, but the shutdown hook test still fails.
>> My patch changed the compile method of 
>> kaffe/tools/compiler/Compiler_kjc and
>> Compiler_pizza classes to return false only when an exception occurs. 
>> But I
>> don't think that kjc or pizza always throw an exception before they 
>> fail to
>> compile some code, so my implementation of compile() smells funny ;) 
>> On the
>> other hand, I don't think there is a way to get the exit codes of 
>> applications
>> ra within kaffe as their calls to Runtime.exit() should shutdown the 
>> whole
>> virtual machine.
>>
>> The apperently simple, but slow & fat way out is to just use 
>> Runtime.exec to
>> start another instance of a JVM. What do you think?
>
>
> I'll check in a patch that delegates running of kjc & pizza to another 
> VM instance through Runtime.exec, since that seems to be the sane 
> thing to do ;)
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic

Hi dalibor !

Ok, have you tested the patch against KJC ? I am not sure they are 
active anymore (I tried to download from the CVS but I only get a timeout).
If you want I can provide you a new binary for KJC (based on KJC 2.1B).

Cheers,

Guilhem.