[Bug 98] New: check_jni_methods.sh script fails on many systems

http://sablevm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=98

           Summary: check_jni_methods.sh script fails on many systems
           Product: SableVM
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: default
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]
         QAContact: [email protected]


The script to check that all declared jni methods have in fact been defined works OK on Linux but fails 
on many other systems. 

Mostly this is due to sed not implementing the "\w" feature, but it seems that Mac OS X (10.3) 
implements it but not in the way expected (==bug probably)). In some cases this can be worked around 
but installing gsed but this still fails on Mac OS X.

At least one system (aix or solaris - I forget which rigt now) chokes on 
TMPFILE=`mktemp`
as the mktemp implementation expects some arguments.

I'd like to pose the question of whether this activity is even appropriate in a stable distribution. If there 
are classpath jni functions missing then the poor user is not able to do anything about it. I suggest that 
this activity be done instead as part of the process of build-for-distribution, and not in the usual 
sequence ./configure - make - make install



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