[kaffe] Compile problems

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Hi Jari,

What kind of signal is it ? Could you run kaffe with '-vmdebug INIT' ?
I am thinking of two possibilities:
* stack boundary detection (which uses SEGV)
* GC handling (which uses a couple of signal to stop/start the VM).

Cheers,

Guilhem.

Jari Korva wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't progressed much. It would help *a lot* if someone who
> understands how Kaffe works would tell who is supposed to send that
> signal so it would be easier to find out why it is not done :)
> 
> I have also observed some variety in how Kaffe behaves. In some very rare
> cases I have got it to print the HelloWorld message but usually it just
> hangs before that.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Jari
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Rafael Teixeira wrote:
> 
>>Hi Jari and Kaffe-List:
>>
>>I'm also stuck with Kaffe stopping on startup on my XScale (IXP42x)
>>hardware. To add some more info we've tried with JamVM and SableVM,
>>and similar behaviour occurs, our next try is to use Mono with IKVM,
>>to see if we can get a single VM to startup our java firmware in the
>>XScale.
>>
>>By tracing a bit, sure things look like your unanswered post on Signal
>>Waiting was in the right track, but with JamVM we are sometimes able
>>to get a simple "Hello World" to work, and sometimes it also hangs.
>>
>>Jari, Have you been able to go further?
>>
>>Thanks for any information, and we will be glad to share what we find
>>on our quest to make Kaffe work on XScale.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>--
>>Rafael Teixeira
>>
>>
>>On 11/18/05, Jari Korva <jpkorva at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I observed a few problems while compiling Kaffe cvs head:
>>>
>>>******
>>>
>>>Classpath configure fails due to missing X libraries although X and
>>>GTK are disabled in Kaffe configure script:
>>>
>>># ./configure --prefix=/wrk/kaffe.intrp --build=i686-linux
>>>--host=armv5b-softfloat-linux --enable-xscale --without-x
>>>--disable-alsatest --disable-esdtest --disable-sound
>>>--enable-pure-java-math --with-jikes=/opt/local/bin/jikes
>>>--without-classpath-gtk-awt --without-kaffe-qt-awt --without-kaffe-x-awt
>>>--with-threads=unix-pthreads --with-engine=intrp
>>>...
>>>checking for iconv declaration...
>>>         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t
>>>*inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
>>>checking for X... disabled
>>>configure: error: GTK+ peers requested but no X library available
>>>configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for libraries/javalib/external/classpath
>>>
>>>I was able to fix this by doing a manual classpath configure (with
>>>--disable-gtk-peer):
>>>
>>># cd libraries/javalib/external/classpath
>>># ./configure --prefix=/wrk/kaffe.intrp --build=i686-linux
>>>--host=armv5b-softfloat-linux --enable-xscale --without-x
>>>--disable-alsatest --disable-esdtest --disable-sound
>>>--enable-pure-java-math --with-jikes=/opt/local/bin/jikes
>>>--without-classpath-gtk-awt --without-kaffe-qt-awt --without-kaffe-x-awt
>>>--with-threads=unix-pthreads --with-engine=intrp --enable-debug
>>>--enable-xdebugging --disable-boehm-gc-configuration
>>>build_alias=i686-linux host_alias=armv5b-softfloat-linux
>>>--enable-ltdl-convenience --disable-core-jni --disable-examples
>>>--with-glibj-dir=/wrk/kaffe.intrp/jre/lib
>>>--with-native-libdir=/wrk/kaffe.intrp/jre/lib/arm
>>>--with-vm-classes=/wrk/kaffe-cvs-head/libraries/javalib/vmspecific
>>>--cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=. --disable-gtk-peer
>>>
>>>******
>>>
>>>The 2nd problem is that configure fails when cross compiling for
>>>ARM/XScale:
>>>
>>>...
>>>checking for esd-config... /usr/bin/esd-config
>>>checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.1... yes
>>>Information: Using pure Java math library
>>>checking which extensions to include...
>>>checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
>>>checking pthread.h usability... yes
>>>checking pthread.h presence... yes
>>>checking for pthread.h... yes
>>>checking for /proc/self/maps... configure: error: cannot check for file
>>>existence when cross compiling
>>>
>>>I was able to fix this with the patch below:
>>>
>>>--- config/arm/linux/config.frag    20 Jan 2005 23:19:18 -0000     1.8
>>>+++ config/arm/linux/config.frag    18 Nov 2005 12:46:49 -0000
>>>@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@
>>>   ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped=${ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped='yes'}
>>> #  ac_cv_func_utime_null=${ac_cv_func_utime_null='yes'}
>>>   ac_cv_c_char_unsigned=${ac_cv_c_char_unsigned='no'}
>>>+  ac_cv_file__proc_self_maps=${ac_cv_file__proc_self_maps='yes'}
>>> fi
>>>
>>>******
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>  Jari
>>>
>>>--
>>> - Jari Korva -
>>>  - jari.korva at iki.fi -
>>>
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>>
> 
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