[kaffe] problem in kaffe compilation from CVS head on fbsd 5.2.1

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Supreet Sethi wrote:
> hi people,

Hi Sethi,

thanks for the bug report.

> I am trying to compile kaffe for intel Pentium III with Fbsd 5.2.1 as
> the operating system.
> 
> following error comes:
> 
> BOOTCLASSPATH=lib:./Klasses.jar.bootstrap
> KAFFELIBRARYPATH=../../libraries/clib/native/:../../libraries/clib/io/:../../libraries/clib/zip/:../../libraries/clib/nio/ ../../kaffe/kaffe/kaffe-bin kaffe.tools.jar.Jar -uvf rt.jar -C . META-INF/
> Assertion failed: (diff % gc_pgsize == 0), function gc_primitive_alloc,
> file gc-mem.c, line 781.
> gmake[3]: *** [rt.jar] Abort trap (core dumped)
> gmake[3]: *** Deleting file `rt.jar'
> 
> what could be the problem

You've found a bug in the gc :)

You can try to debug it, or to install zip, and reconfigure & rebuild 
kaffe from scratch in order to use zip to create rt.jar instead of 
kaffe's own Jar.

cheers,
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