[kaffe] KJC is failing or other error?

[Dalibor Topic]

Riccardo wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I was compiling today's CVS on darwin6 and I got:
> 
> [ parsed org/xml/sax/helpers/XMLReaderFactory.java in 1,577 ms ]
> [ checked modifiers in 11,795 ms ]
> javax/swing/JDesktopPane.java:87: error:Cannot find class 
> "AccessibleJComponent" [JLS 8]
> make[3]: *** [lib/stamp] Error 1
> 
> 
> is this a KJC error? I tried compiling using JIKES and it gives me many 
> cautions and warnings and at the end it fails with

Ciao Riccardo,

thank you very much for your bug report. The problem you noticed is a 
problem with (Kaffe's ?) kjc.

> Found 1 semantic error compiling "org/metastatic/jessie/
> DialogPasswordHandler.java":
> 
>    123.             password.setEchoChar(current.isEchoOn() ? 0 : '*');
>                     <------------------------------------------------>
> *** Error: No match was found for method "setEchoChar(int)".
> 
> so something must be broken...

In this case, I assume it is your version of Jikes, that seems to have a 
slight problem. The code above builds fine for me using jikes 1.21 on 
ix86, or using javac.

cheers,
dalibor topic