Unable to compile IcedTea with CACAO under Fedora 17

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> > I received one of 3 types of errors when attempting to compile:
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: fatal: missing resource
> > bundle:
> > sun.rmi.rmic.resources.rmic_en_US
> > or
> > /opt/icedtea-2.2.1/openjdk.build-boot/tmp/java/java.lang/java/obj/Thread.o:(.data.rel+0xbc):
> > undefined reference to 'JVM_SetNativeThreadName'
> > or
> > Error occured during intialization of VM
> > Could not reserve enough space for object heap.
> > (I am running this on a machine with 4GB of RAM, so that should be
> > plenty.)
> >
> > So what am I missing? It is a compatibility issue of using
> > java.1.7.0-openjdk with IcedTea?
> > I apologize if I've drifted onto the wrong mailing list. If so, set
> > me
> > straight, but do it gently. ;-)
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> icedtea7 still picks up an old version of CACAO. My attempts at
> getting the most recent changes in got stuck in progress (through my
> own fault, I must add).
> 
> At the moment, this should work:
> 
> - get icedtea7 from https://bitbucket.org/Ringdingcoder/icedtea7
> - merge with current icedtea7 if necessary/desired
> - check out CACAO from http://mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at/hg/cacao/
> - add --with-cacao-src-dir=<cacao_checkout> to your icedtea configure
> options
> - I /think/ you should also specify --disable-bootstrap
> 
> Cheers
> 


What changes?

What should the status of CACAO on 7 be?  Last I knew it was broken.
Gentoo are quite interested in this for getting 7 support on more archs.
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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