Bug 131927 – gnu-classpath-0.90 (and related vms) stable request

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2006-05-01 09:39:00 UTC]

I think it is time to mark a much newer version off gnu-classpath stable as the current stable version is very much outdated. Please note that classpath is still buggy but this is a huge improvement over the current stable version. You can use for example jamvm or cacao to test gnu-classpath and mark latest versions of those stable if you think so. Both should be able to run most basic java applications.

[Comment 1 Matthias Langer 2006-05-08 05:08:06 UTC]

Created attachment 86417 [details]
test failures in detail

Well, i've now started to look at gnu-classpath-0.90 and cacao-0.95 on x86. The first thing i noticed is that not all tests pass for cacao-0.95 (see attachment). I'll try to run a view java apps with this setup in the next few days ...

Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ "
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt css cups curl dbus directfb dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif ginac glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn nautilus ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png posix pppd python quicktime readline real reflection ruby sdl session slang sockets speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse ssl subtitles svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wma xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS

[Comment 2 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2006-05-11 12:17:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=86417) [edit]
> test failures in detail
> 
> Well, i've now started to look at gnu-classpath-0.90 and cacao-0.95 on x86. The
> first thing i noticed is that not all tests pass for cacao-0.95 (see
> attachment). I'll try to run a view java apps with this setup in the next few
> days ...
> 

I have noticed that same thing. Should probably disable the tests atm.

[Comment 3 Matthias Langer 2006-05-11 17:00:45 UTC]

ok, here are my first results for x86 (for cacao-0.95 only at this time):

cacao seems to be ok. i was able to run a lot of simple tutorial style apps scattered in my $HOME, that where byte-compiled with sun-jdk-1.5.x (yes, i know it is masked) without problems. cacao has issues with swing, but i guess this nothing new (i don't like swing that much too :-)).

if desired i can also test cacao-0.95 in connection with sun-jdk-1.4.x that is in x86 for quite some time. however, this would involve some overhead on my part, and i guess i should better go for gcj and gnu-classpath.

[Comment 4 Matthias Langer 2006-05-11 18:09:39 UTC]

> ... i should better go for gcj and gnu-classpath.

sorry, i was a bit confused about gnu-classpath, gcj, cacao .... after looking at the ebuild for cacao i realized that i've allread tested gnu-classpath-0.90 [ 
+alsa +cairo -debug -dssi -examples +gtk +xml ] as cacao uses it. thus, the things i've said about cacao can also be applied to gnu-classpath. please let me know if i should look out for something in particular.

Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ "
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt css cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif ginac glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit lcms libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn nautilus ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png posix pppd python quicktime readline real reflection ruby sdl session slang sockets speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse ssl subtitles svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wma xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_en linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS

[Comment 5 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2006-05-11 21:49:27 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> > ... i should better go for gcj and gnu-classpath.
> 
> sorry, i was a bit confused about gnu-classpath, gcj, cacao .... after looking
> at the ebuild for cacao i realized that i've allread tested gnu-classpath-0.90
> [ 
> +alsa +cairo -debug -dssi -examples +gtk +xml ] as cacao uses it. thus, the
> things i've said about cacao can also be applied to gnu-classpath. please let
> me know if i should look out for something in particular.
> 

I think that is just fine as the current stable version is very old and incomplete. We will do much more testing later when we actually recommend FOSS java to our users. Marking as stable on x86.

[Comment 6 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-06-23 10:27:47 UTC]

aye aye

[Comment 7 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) 2006-07-19 02:12:52 UTC]

stable on ppc.  closing, as we are the last arch.