Xerces can't be emerged on alpha with the current ebuild due to the build script dying with outofmemory error when compiling the 600+ batch of files. It can be built by first compiling the java files separetly or if the build.xml file can be modified for smaller chunks of files. About 200 files have passed under the radar in other packages. Xjavac might also need to be removed but the evidence for that isn't conclusive but its marked with a note about making xerces compile on jdk 1.4 bug 68974 kind of relies on xerces since ant wont work completly without xerces or perhaps due to missing xmlsupport in compaq-jdk Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mark xerces stable on alpha 2.emerge xerces 3. Actual Results: ant dies with out of memory error and emerge fails Expected Results: xerces should install
Created attachment 42832 [details, diff] Patch to fix xerces build on alpha With this patch to the build.xml file xerces build on alpha. It doesn't use xjavac which maybe it should. I am also not sure if this build a complete xerces since the individual compile counts on the 2 blocks doesn't add up to large number of files it previously built by the one block. It is enough to make ant work but i will look into the completness soon if no one else does it first
The current status of Java on Alpha doesn't let us handle Java bugs properly. We will revisit all Java related bugs once we find a good Java Virtual Machine for the Alpha Architecture.
