Re: [rvm-research] RVM build problems

Hi,

On 23.08.2016 23:42, Bowen Alpern wrote:
> so we are following the directions from Chapter 3 (Building Jikes RVM).  As we have run into trouble with the build, we are asking for help from the researchers mailing list.
> [...]
> Any ideas about what we might be doing wrong?
You seem to be using relative paths for the directories in your .ant.properties file. This is probably confusing the build system. Relative paths are relative to the basedir of the current Ant build file and we use multiple build files (e.g. one for building classpath). You could try to use absolute paths in your .ant.properties, e.g. like this:

dist.dir=${jikesrvm.dir}/prototype-dist
build.dir=${jikesrvm.dir}/prototype-build
components.dir=${jikesrvm.dir}/prototype-components
components.cache.dir=${jikesrvm.dir}/prototype-cache

> Tony and I are trying to build the Jikes RVM on a 64 bit intel (arm64) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine.
I assume that you're trying to build a version later than 3.1.4 from git for amd64.

> We were not able to get the Quick Start instruction from the Users Guide to work for us,
I take it that you didn't have success with either ant or buildit. What did the error messages say?


Kind regards,

Erik Brangs



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