[kaffe] public static method not found

[Dalibor Topic]

Am Samstag, den 26.03.2005, 00:38 +0100 schrieb Daniel Bonniot:
> Hi,

Salut Daniel,

merci for your bug report.

> Here is a simple testcase that fails with kaffe 2005-03-24 (Debian package 
> PRECVS12):
> 
> 
> public class Test
> {
>    public static void main(String[] args)
>    {
>      gnu.bytecode.Type.reset();
>    }
> }
> 
> 
> package gnu.bytecode;
> 
> public abstract class Type {
> 
>    public static void reset()
>    {
>    }
> }
> 
> 
> 
> $ jikes-classpath Test.java
> $ gij Test
> $ kaffe Test
> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: gnu/bytecode/Type.reset()V
>     at Test.main (Test.java:5)

GNU bytecode has recently been merged in into Kaffe for the cp-tools
tasks in order to support javap task. It seems that this breaks things
for applications that rely on their own version of gnu bytecode.

I guess the right fix is to create a tools.jar, and move our version of
GNU bytecode over there, so that it doesn't get picked up by
applications. 

That would require a few changes to the build system, though, so I'd
like to do that right after 1.1.5 comes out, as I'd like to get 1.1.5
out ASAP for Debian Sarge.

cheers,
dalibor topic