Re: "SableVM SDK for Java" - preview release available for download

Hi all,
I tried the the sdk package on Mac OS X and ran into a couple of 
problems.

These were on OS X 10.3.9 (Panther).

First is that darwin_closure.S in libffi broke ...
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -I. 
-I../.././../sablevm/src/libffi/include -Iinclude 
-I../.././../sablevm/src/libffi/src -g -O2 -c -o 
src/powerpc/darwin_closure.lo src/powerpc/darwin_closure.S
  gcc -I. -I../.././../sablevm/src/libffi/include -Iinclude 
-I../.././../sablevm/src/libffi/src -g -O2 -c 
src/powerpc/darwin_closure.S  -fno-common -DPIC -o 
src/powerpc/.libs/darwin_closure.o
darwin_closure.S:249:unknown section attribute: live_support

This has changed since the 3325 version, which worked fine. Replacing 
this file with the version from 3325 allowed it to build.

Second is minor - the test programs in popt failed to build. The 
message you get is ...
/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc  -Wall -g -O2   -o test1 
-all-static test1.o libpopt_convenience.la
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o test1 -static test1.o  ./.libs/libpopt_convenience.a
ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt0.o

The problem is the "-all-static" and removing it allows the tests to 
build. There's some special stuff for doing full-static builds on OS X 
and I presently forget exactly what it is, but I don't think that's 
required here. On OS X, full-static builds are usually only for 
security-sensitive things which ship with the OS and will be kept in 
sync with it.

I'm not sure how to configure sdk with "--disable-gtk-peer" which is 
what we normally use, so I thought that I'd get those items from fink. 
That's ongoing right now, but I hit two issues with it (not sablevm)

First is that one of the dependencies has a file whose checksum is 
broken. This was the download ...
curl -f -L -O http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbkx412.zip
I've tried from several mirrors and they're all the same.

Second is that you have to install unstable and from source, as the 
installable binary for gtk2 is only version 2.2.4 and 2.4 or later is 
required. This is a lengthy process (about an hour so far on a dual G5) 
including the various dependencies. I'll update on how this goes.

Cheers.....Peter



On May 2, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It looks like we have a good season for preview releases :-)  But I bet
> this one you will find interesting.  Simply fetch
>
> 	http://sablevm.org/people/gadek/sablevm-sdk-testing-0.9.tar.gz
>
> unpack, execute:
>
> ./configure && make
> su
> make install
>
> And in /usr/local/lib/sablevm you should get quite nice JAVA_HOME-like
> environment.  I would also suggest to do:
>
> export PATH="/usr/local/lib/sablevm/bin:$PATH"
>
>
> Why is it so special?
>
> The above tar archive includes:
> * sablevm
> * sablevm-classpath
> * libffi
> * libpopt
> * jikes
>
> So:
> * you should never have problems with installing libffi or libpopt
>   "by hand" again
> * No "my jikes is too old" issues (use --with-jikes=internal)
> * No way to make a typo while specifying --prefix=...  to sablevm and
>   sablevm-classpath.
> * Your system libraries and system-wide jikes *are* used automatically
>   if available.
>
>
> This is a preview release and we will only be too happy to hear about
> any problems you may have with it, especially at installation time.
>
> The goal of SableVM SDK for Java is that it should dance and sing for
> you :-)  If it does not, or it could do better *please* *complain* !!!
>
> Either here, or by filling a bug report at
>
> http://sablevm.org/bugs/new
>
> Have fun!
>
> 		Grzegorz B. Prokopski
>
> PS: There's more to come.
> -- 
> Grzegorz B. Prokopski           <[email protected]>
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