[kaffe] How to change the boot class path?

[Matthias Pfisterer]

Hi,

for testing, I want to "shadow" a class in kaffe's rt.jar by a modified 
version of the same class. I routinly do this with the Sun JDK 
prepending a .jar file containing the modified version of the class with 
the -Xbootclasspath/p option. With older versions of kaffe it was 
possible to achieve the same effect by having a file ~/.kafferc with 
lines like:
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CLASSPATH=/home/matthias/java/tritonus/dist/tritonus_core.jar:$CLASSPATH
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This no longer seems to work. After some searching I found that there is 
a property sun.boot.class.path that should allow to set the boot class 
path in kaffe. However, I didn't manage to make it work, too. In looking 
for a way to debug this, I detected the vmdebug option INITCLASSPATH. 
Using this option, I got the feeling that sun.boot.class.path isn't 
recognized at all:
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artemis:~/java/jsresources/examples/.build>kjava -vmdebug INITCLASSPATH 
-Dsun.boot.class.path=/usr/local/kaffe/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/local/kaffe/lib/kjc.jar 
Hello
initClasspath(): 
'/usr/local/kaffe/jre/lib/rt.jar::/usr/local/kaffe/lib/kjc.jar'
insertClasspath(): '/usr/local/kaffe/jre/lib/rt.jar' append
insertClasspath(): '' append
insertClasspath(): '/usr/local/kaffe/lib/kjc.jar' append
Hello world!
artemis:~/java/jsresources/examples/.build>kjava -vmdebug INITCLASSPATH 
Hello
initClasspath(): 
'/usr/local/kaffe/jre/lib/rt.jar::/usr/local/kaffe/lib/kjc.jar'
insertClasspath(): '/usr/local/kaffe/jre/lib/rt.jar' append
insertClasspath(): '' append
insertClasspath(): '/usr/local/kaffe/lib/kjc.jar' append
Hello world!
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Am I missing something obvious? Or is there an alternative way to change 
the boot class path?

Matthias
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