Re: [Slightly OT] Oracle JDK and utilities crash on Debian Wheezy, Squeeze and now stretch.

2017-08-02 Thread Andrew Haley
ything about it without reproducible bug reports. -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671

Re: JMAP tool broken since openjdk-7 version 7u92?

2017-02-02 Thread Andrew Haley
On 31/01/17 18:35, Matthew Patton wrote: > I ran across this bug report > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/1548434) and it > seems in Wheezy/Jessie it's likewise. The last functional version I just so > happened to hold onto is 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1. > > The following

Re: java outlook for stretch and buster

2016-09-11 Thread Andrew Haley
On 10/09/16 14:28, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 10.09.2016 12:28, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 10/09/16 11:09, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >>> The ARM32 port already is in an upstream repository, and I'm told >>> that the s390x is on it's way. Even if these ports will no

Re: java outlook for stretch and buster

2016-09-10 Thread Andrew Haley
On 10/09/16 11:09, Matthias Klose wrote: > The ARM32 port already is in an upstream repository, and I'm told > that the s390x is on it's way. Even if these ports will not be > merged before openjdk-10, it's my intent to build these from their > branches, as done in the past with the AArch64 and

Re: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy-LTS

2016-03-29 Thread Andrew Haley
On 24/03/16 19:03, Markus Koschany wrote: > Wheezy-LTS is going to start next month and there is the intention to > switch the default-jre|jdk from OpenJDK 6 to OpenJDK 7 because the > latter can be supported until Wheezy reaches EOL in 2018-05-31. Yes! Good call. While we are still supporting

Re: Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Haley
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: That would be against the rules AFAICR: you're supposed to do your own TCK runs, and not on behalf of someone else. How do automated builds factor into that? I don't think it makes any difference. But IANAL, and you'd have to read the TCK

Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Haley
On 01/22/2015 02:23 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: That would be against the rules AFAICR: you're supposed to do your own TCK runs, and not on behalf of someone else. How do automated builds

Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Haley
On 19/01/15 11:35, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: I've requested an access to the TCK for Java 8 in June to run it on the Debian packages but I haven't heard back from Oracle yet. I'd ping them again. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Haley
On 19/01/15 00:20, Paul Wise wrote: If there are individuals who have access to the TCK and could validate the package and file bugs, that would be great. That would be against the rules AFAICR: you're supposed to do your own TCK runs, and not on behalf of someone else. Andrew. -- To

Re: problem with java - debian

2014-04-11 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/11/2014 11:24 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 2014-04-11 om 11:38 schreef mohamad.most...@uni-ulm.de: Hi, I am trying to install matlab under Linux and I am facing the following message Preparing installation files ... Installing ... Error occurred during initialization of VM Could

Re: Replacing openjdk-6 with gcj-jdk as default java for mips{,el}

2013-11-26 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/13/2013 12:29 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 02:35:49PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, (With my Java hat on and my Release hat off) We are getting close to being able to remove openjdk-6 from sid and testing. However, there is major blocker, which is

Re: openjdk-7 for kfreebsd

2013-11-14 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/13/2013 07:45 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 11/13/2013 12:29 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I have finally been able to fix openjdk-7 on mips and mipsel. Brilliant! On 13/11/13 09:10, Andrew Haley wrote: That's an odd patch. FWIW it looks right to me that something like this would

Re: openjdk-7 for kfreebsd

2013-11-14 Thread Andrew Haley
On 11/14/2013 11:53 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi Andrew, On 14/11/13 09:26, Andrew Haley wrote: [...] on kfreebsd we are also looking to switch to openjdk-7 as soon as possible. And we were advised to send our patches upstream also. I'd appreciate any advice on how to go about doing

Re: Replacing openjdk-6 with gcj-jdk as default java for mips{,el}

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Haley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/13/2013 12:29 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I have finally been able to fix openjdk-7 on mips and mipsel. It was a problem of ugly casts done without taking care of alignement issues. See bug #729448 for more details. With the patch from

Re: Runtime JVM != compile time JDK - acceptable?

2013-10-05 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/20/2013 08:48 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 20/09/2013 08:50, Florian Weimer a écrit : Is this a bug in Netbeans or OpenJDK 6? If the latter, has it been fixed upstream? This is an OpenJDK 6 bug. It has been reported upstream and promptly closed as 'Won't Fix'.

Re: Runtime JVM != compile time JDK - acceptable?

2013-10-01 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/20/2013 08:48 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 20/09/2013 08:50, Florian Weimer a écrit : Is this a bug in Netbeans or OpenJDK 6? If the latter, has it been fixed upstream? This is an OpenJDK 6 bug. It has been reported upstream and promptly closed as 'Won't Fix'. It's not marked as

Re: Release Goal: Switch to OpenJDK7

2013-08-19 Thread Andrew Haley
On 08/19/2013 01:13 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: OpenJDK6 is obsolete No it's not. Andrew. OpenJDK 6 Project Lead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#699757: Java 6 support ending, Java 7 not in squeeze

2013-02-05 Thread Andrew Haley
On 02/04/2013 05:27 PM, Christian Bernardt wrote: Debian squeeze does provide openjdk-6-jdk as part of its default-jdk package. Here it can be seen that http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html Java 6 end of support will be end of this month. That's Oracle proprietary Java.

Re: -gcj packages and openjdk-built jars

2012-07-18 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/18/2012 02:02 PM, Rene Engelhard wrote: - compile the jar.sos against -java-commons jars (b-d on itself on kbsd-*) The .jar.so files have no compile-time dependencies on anything. All dependencies are resolved at runtime. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-14 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/12/2012 04:59 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrew Haley dixit: Oh, gosh. As you say, it looks like strace isn't working. I can't I managed to get further by usine -o but *not* -f (or -ff), since using -o with -ff showed a child process’ log consisting exactly of: --- SIGPWR (Power

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-14 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/14/2012 02:21 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: With that, “gcj-4.6 -c x.java” produces… x.o: ELF 32-bit MSB relocatable, Motorola 68020, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped Ugh. So, now what. God only knows. Your system is behaving in such a bizarre way that I can't imagine what it's doing. I

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-14 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/14/2012 04:57 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrew Haley dixit: Is this box reachable? https://wiki.debian.org/Aranym/Quick can get you a VM that behaves the same (it’s one of these). Does it have a working gdb? I think so. Andreas recently even fixed thread debugging, though someone

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/09/2012 07:55 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrew Haley dixit: gcj has an evil bug. Sometimes, when it has an unresolved reference, it reports a ClassNotFoundException for the referring class, not the referred. So, you now need to Oh, ok. jcf-dump -v -classpath /usr/share/java

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/10/2012 06:08 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrew Haley dixit: Hmm. Well, I think we're very close and it would be a shame to stop Oh, ok. now. If you do an strace -f -etrace=file you should be able to see what classes it's trying to load at the end, and one of these won't

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/06/2012 03:56 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: If someone has an idea how to debug this, you’re welcome. Try running ecj1 like this: gij -verbose:class -classpath /usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.GCCMain \ Hello.java -g1

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/09/2012 12:58 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrew Haley dixit: On 05/06/2012 03:56 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: If someone has an idea how to debug this, you’re welcome. Try running ecj1 like this: gij -verbose:class -classpath /usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar

Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 05/09/2012 05:15 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Andrew Haley dixit: OK: gij-4.6 -verbose:class -classpath /usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.GCCMain x.java -g1 -fbootclasspath=./:/usr/share/java/libgcj-4.6.jar -g1 -fsource=1.5 -ftarget=1.5

Re: New work on java-package

2012-04-03 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/03/2012 12:29 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 31/03/2012 21:10, Andrew Haley a écrit : While reading the authbind documentation I saw it was doing some fork tricks behind the scene. Maybe the forked process can't allocate its memory due to OpenVZ and quits? Hold on, do you see

Re: New work on java-package

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/28/2012 11:50 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 28/03/2012 19:38, Andrew Haley a écrit : If you run strace -f -etrace=net java ... you'll be able to see the bind call that fails, and we can take it from there. Thank you for the tip, I'll give it a try. I'm not familiar with strace

Re: New work on java-package

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/27/2012 10:12 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 20/03/2012 12:41, Andrew Haley a écrit : Comments like this are infuriating. I want to make OpenJDK competitive, but I can't do anything with this because I don't know what you're talking about. I can't reproduce the problem, so I can't fix

Re: New work on java-package

2012-03-28 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/27/2012 10:12 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 20/03/2012 12:41, Andrew Haley a écrit : Comments like this are infuriating. I want to make OpenJDK competitive, but I can't do anything with this because I don't know what you're talking about. I can't reproduce the problem, so I can't fix

Re: New work on java-package

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/19/2012 07:11 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote: The focus of my message was to point out the need for users of Debian and its derivatives to be able to install an official JRE or JDK from Oracle. If I gave the impression of criticizing OpenJDK, my apologies; that was not the intent. Like so

Re: New work on java-package

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/19/2012 02:04 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote: For example, JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, one of the main IDEs for Java development, still doesn't endorse the use of OpenJDK. If you download IDEA and launch it via a terminal, you will see the following warning: ~$ ./idea-IC-111.277/bin/idea.sh

Re: Reasonable values for the -Xmx parameter ?

2010-03-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/08/2010 11:11 PM, Vincent Fourmond wrote: Pablo Duboue wrote: All right... Then, maybe I could add a function to java-wrappers that would find out what is a 'good default' for that parameter, getting something more than the memory required but still reasonably less than the memory

Re: State of openjdk on hppa

2010-01-06 Thread Andrew Haley
On 01/06/2010 05:26 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote: No I didn't see it. If it was only on the icedtea list then I wouldn't have seen it as hotspot-dev is the only one of these aliases that I'm on. Oh darn, my mistake. The shiny new Reply List button on Thunderbird 3 didn't quite do what I

Re: Bug#559967: FTBFS [hppa]: method openConnection() in the type URL is not...

2009-12-14 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/14/2009 04:58 PM, dann frazier wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:10:18PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote: AFAIK, GCJ uses classpath library these days. The code from classpath is being merged in GCJ. And from the status of classpath [1] it is clear that

Re: What is openjdk equivalent of javaws.jar

2009-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
Vincent Fourmond wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: Vincent Fourmond wrote: This raises a problem which I've hit quite a few times already: it is a currently pain to find which java package holds which java classes. It would be quite great to have

Re: What is openjdk equivalent of javaws.jar

2009-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
Vincent Fourmond wrote: This raises a problem which I've hit quite a few times already: it is a currently pain to find which java package holds which java classes. It would be quite great to have the equivalent of apt-file for java classes ;-)... (and that shouldn't be too difficult to write,

Re: What is openjdk equivalent of javaws.jar

2009-11-09 Thread Andrew Haley
Vincent Fourmond wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: Sure, but that only works for installed packages, whereas its utility would be much greater if it was based on some index of the jars available in the Debian archive... (for the record, apt-file

Re: Debconf Java BOF discussions

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthew Johnson wrote: I've arranged for a Debian Java BOF at Debconf this year which I know many people won't be at, so I'd like to have some sort of pre-discussion first. There are a number of issues I'd like to try and sort out with packaging policy, and actually try and get them baked

Re: openjdk-6 6b14-4 built but not uploaded

2009-07-01 Thread Andrew Haley
issues). Andrew Haley did look at it. For now nobody was interested in working on the port. That's right. It may be that the memory allocation is actually the only problem, and everything else will work just fine, but PA-RISC is, as far as I'm aware, only for legacy systems now. Andrew

Re: hppa in danger of being ignored for testing migration and eventual removal

2009-04-30 Thread Andrew Haley
update. OpenJDK is non-trivial. Andrew Haley did have a look at this and came to the conclusion that the byte code interpreter for the zero port needs porting for archs with upward growing stacks. It might not be horribly difficult to fix. The crash comes when the VM calls mprotect

Re: Bug#479952: libc6/s390 - __pthread_mutex_lock: Assertion `mutex-__data.__owner == 0' failed.

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Haley
Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Julien Danjou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything from an outsider that could help? I've seen this on-and-off again on the hppa-linux port. The issue has, in my experience, been a compiler problem. My standard operating

Re: Bug#479952: libc6/s390 - __pthread_mutex_lock: Assertion `mutex-__data.__owner == 0' failed.

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Haley
Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Andrew Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen this on-and-off again on the hppa-linux port. The issue has, in my experience, been a compiler problem. My standard operating procedure is to methodically add volatile to the atomic.h

Re: RFS: trang 20030619-7 (QA upload)

2008-09-06 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Schutte wrote: Hi Javaists, [Please Cc me on replies, I’m not subscribed] Could one of you be so kind and check my proposed QA upload of trang fixing #478187? The error occurs because gcj hides an internal package of trang behind a built-in one, which causes the very fancy

Re: Developing with Java on Debian

2008-06-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Richard wrote: This is a bit of a newby question. What I'm wondering is whether one can use the debian package system as a kind of build system. Let me illustrate with an example, say for example I want to write an app and package it with debian and this app uses Hibernate, then I would

Re: Are gcj/gij/java-gcj-compat ok on armel?

2008-05-01 Thread Andrew Haley
Martin Guy wrote: Hi! I see gcj/gij/java-gcj-compat are now disabled on arm, and that dependent packages are being asked to exclude them as Build-Deps to eliminate java library bindings. Are they believed to work in the armel port? Yes. As far as I'm aware gcj works 100% on armel.

Re: RM: arm: gtk/gnome java stack RoP;

2008-03-11 Thread Andrew Haley
Riku Voipio wrote: Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: important The following source packages are unbuildable and out of date on arm, thus blocking testing transition. It seems unlikely that java will properly work on oldabi arm, so please remove these for starters. Are we only talking

Re: RM: arm: gtk/gnome java stack RoP;

2008-03-11 Thread Andrew Haley
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: important Riku Voipio wrote: Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: important The following source packages are unbuildable and out of date on arm, thus blocking testing transition. It seems unlikely that java will properly work on oldabi arm, so please remove

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Haley
Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:01:03PM +, Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:35:28AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: And what was the reason? I need to know. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-03-02 12:38:50.196 !MESSAGE

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:01:03PM +, Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:35:28AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: And what was the reason? I need to know. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-03-02 12:38:50.196 !MESSAGE Application error !STACK

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Haley
Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:01:03PM +, Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:35:28AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: And what was the reason? I need to know. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-03-02 12:38:50.196 !MESSAGE

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:50:38PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: Hello, A while ago, I wrote: Using the following pakages: * java-gcj-compat{,-dev} 1.0.69-2 * ecj, ecj-gcj, libecj-java and libecj-gcj 3.3.0+0728-1 * libgcj-bc, libgcj8{-1,-1-awt,-jar} 4.2.1-3 *

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:35:28AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: And what was the reason? I need to know. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-03-02 12:38:50.196 !MESSAGE Application error !STACK 1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:01:03PM +, Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:35:28AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: And what was the reason? I need to know. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-03-02 12:38:50.196 !MESSAGE Application error !STACK

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Haley
Andrew Haley wrote: There are areas where compliant jvms might behave differently. For example, the exact time when dependent classes are loaded isn't defined. Maybe at class initialization time, maybe later. All the the spec requires is that ClassNotFoundExceptions aren't raised until

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:33:21AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:56:18AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: Has anyone actually attempted to debug this? Which code actually calls Runtime.exit()? I tried to debug this but I dont found

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Haley
Thomas Girard wrote: Hello, A while ago, I wrote: Using the following pakages: * java-gcj-compat{,-dev} 1.0.69-2 * ecj, ecj-gcj, libecj-java and libecj-gcj 3.3.0+0728-1 * libgcj-bc, libgcj8{-1,-1-awt,-jar} 4.2.1-3 * gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-3 * gcj-4.1-base, gcj-4.1, gij-4.1, libgcj7-1

Re: Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS with gcj-4.2

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:56:18AM +, Andrew Haley wrote: Has anyone actually attempted to debug this? Which code actually calls Runtime.exit()? I tried to debug this but I dont found out from where exit is called with code 13. What went wrong with the debugging

Re: RFH: Illegal instruction error building docbook-xsl-saxon(-gcj) on arm architecture

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Haley
Daniel Leidert wrote: The arm-buildd failed to build docbook-xsl-saxon(-gcj) with an illegal instruction error. You can find the build log at: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=docbook-xsl-saxon;ver=1.00.dfsg.1-3;arch=arm;stamp=1202259174 A bug in GIJ? Anybody an idea? I do not have

Re: Help needed on the Java policy

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthew Johnson wrote: I have a package which compiles in the sid java-gcj-compat-dev, but only runs with sun java (or, I assume, IBM, but since IBM isn't in the archive, I don't think it's all that important to cater for). I've filed bugs against gcj, which have been fixed upstream, and it

Re: icedtea status?

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Haley
Egon Willighagen writes: On Jan 7, 2008 10:22 AM, Arnaud Vandyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/7, Michael Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I understand, but do we really have other possible ways? Not moving packages that work only with icedtea to main at the moment. What are the

Re: icedtea status?

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch writes: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:22:42AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: 2008/1/7, Michael Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] You know that even GCJ is not working on all our platforms? Yes I know and for those platforms, I don't see a problem moving the package to

Re: Using java-gcj-compat-dev as build dependency

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Onkar Shinde writes: On Dec 20, 2007 3:23 PM, Arnaud Vandyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/12/19, Onkar Shinde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am a java developer who is learning debian packaging these days. I am trying to fix some FTBFS of java related packages in Ubuntu. Some recent

Re: Using java-gcj-compat-dev as build dependency

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Onkar Shinde writes: On Dec 20, 2007 3:47 PM, Andrew Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Onkar Shinde writes: On Dec 20, 2007 3:23 PM, Arnaud Vandyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/12/19, Onkar Shinde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am a java developer who is learning debian packaging

Re: Bug #449176: azureus: Downloads very slowly with GIJ

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Haley
Anthony Green writes: Andrew Haley wrote: OK, so you're not picking up the precompiled classes for some reason. Not good, but the fact that the CPU is only at 5% indicates that isn't the core problem. I believe that the problem lies in our NIO implementation. I don't know

Re: Bug #449176: azureus: Downloads very slowly with GIJ

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Haley
Shaun Jackman writes: Running the bit torrent client Azureus, downloading progresses terribly slowly with the java-gcj-compat JVM and works fine with Sun's JVM. If anyone has any thoughts on why this might be the case, or has some time to investigate, I'd appreciate the help in solving

Re: Bug #449176: azureus: Downloads very slowly with GIJ

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Haley
Shaun Jackman writes: On Nov 21, 2007 6:31 AM, Andrew Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun Jackman writes: Running the bit torrent client Azureus, downloading progresses terribly slowly with the java-gcj-compat JVM and works fine with Sun's JVM. If anyone has any

Re: Bug #449176: azureus: Downloads very slowly with GIJ

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Haley
Shaun Jackman writes: On Nov 21, 2007 11:30 AM, Andrew Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun Jackman writes: On Nov 21, 2007 6:31 AM, Andrew Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun Jackman writes: Running the bit torrent client Azureus, downloading progresses

Re: Thread problem in gcj?

2007-08-28 Thread Andrew Haley
Arnaud Vandyck writes: Hi all, I was reading some bug reports and I don't know if Andrew, Marc or other gcj dev were aware of a problem we have with dom4j that could be a gcj thread problem: Debian Bug report logs - #427456 dom4j: FTBFS: org.dom4j.ThreadingTest times out

Re: Memory problems with gij-4.1 and glibc 2.6

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew Haley
Marcus Better writes: I have recently had problems building Java packages. The build would just eat memory, and occasionally show things like: GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 524288000): May lead to memory leak and poor performance. GC

Re: [Debian Wiki] Update of Java by HenningSprang

2007-07-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch writes: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:27:22PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Am I missing something? Isn't Sun's Java 6 in Debian still in non-free?! It is. And it will never move to main.

Re: Backtrace with jar

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Haley
Jörg Sommer writes: is this a bug in java or in the application? Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: getenv getenv was deprecated, removed, and then re-added in Java 1.5. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4199068 Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:

Re: Sun's OpenJDK in Debian?

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Haley
Mark Wielaard writes: Only bootstraps on Fedora 7 for now, but we are making (very) slow progress to get things to build fully on Debian also. Ofergoodnessake, it's been three whole days! :-) Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE,

Re: Java policy and ABI changes

2007-05-26 Thread Andrew Haley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Andrew Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In my opinion, Java libraries without stable interfaces shouldn't be deployed in free OSes. If they are to be used, you're going to have to change the jar name, but even that may not work: if you use such a library

Re: Java policy and ABI changes

2007-05-26 Thread Andrew Haley
Marcus Better writes: Andrew Haley wrote: In my opinion, Java libraries without stable interfaces shouldn't be deployed in free OSes. That's a nice goal but unfortunately the world is not so perfect, because users occasionally require new software with shiny new bells and whistles

Re: Java policy and ABI changes

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Haley
Mike Hommey writes: I have a java library package, called libmozillainterfaces-java, that is provided by xulrunner. I'm currently working on a new upstream release of xulrunner which changed the java interfaces: some interfaces changed namespaces, so you have to do changes to your

Re: java dependency substvars and native compilation

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew Haley
Paul Cager writes: * Using the strings command seems to me a bit unsafe, in that you could get false positives if there are (normal) strings that end in class. I'm not sure if that is a real-life concern, or just my over-active imagination. It's unsafe. strings prints the printable

Re: java dependency substvars and native compilation

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthew Johnson writes: Ideally I'd write (not in bash) a real byte-code parser which can find the class references properly. $ jcf-dump --print-constants java.lang.Object | grep 'Class name:' #2: Class name: 1=java/lang/Object #8: Class name: 7=java/lang/Throwable #18: Class name:

Re: Repackaging question

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Haley
Arnaud Vandyck writes: On 12/6/06, Marcus Better [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Mesing wrote: Generally speaking yes, but the Debian Java Policy suggests, that class files should be removed from upstream release [1]. That advice is plain wrong. (And it's not part of the

Re: Naming a 32-bit/64-bit specific Java package

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthew Johnson writes: On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: libswt-gtk-3.2-java32 libswt-gtk-3.2-java64 libswt-gtk-3.2-java Any other suggestions, or completely different approaches? This seems like a really bad solution. The package is architecture

Re: [RFC-DRAFT] Debian-Java point of view about JDK under the GPL

2006-11-17 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthias Klose writes: Arnaud Vandyck writes: Hi debian-java team, I'd like us to write a common position statement about the jdk under the gpl. I think these points should be mentioned: o This is really a good thing for us because it is now really the GPL (+Classpath

Re: Packaging questions

2006-11-12 Thread Andrew Haley
Marcus Better writes: Benjamin Mesing wrote: However it requires Java 5.0 and I haven't found any information if there is a 5.0 compatible free java compiler available. I don't think so, but check GCJ upstream. It's not just the compiler, but also the class library that needs to

Re: gcj/java status

2006-10-23 Thread Andrew Haley
Matthias Klose writes: - arm: debian only port, not yet submitted to upstream; runtime is currently non-functional, testsuite shows failures for all interpreter test cases. #388505: segfaults in gcj-dbtool-4.1, not addressed. Going back to gcj-4.0 for arm could be an

Re: JGR with free java (was: GUI for R)

2006-10-22 Thread Andrew Haley
Egon Willighagen writes: cc: debian-java - I need a bit of help here, see below On Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:48, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | Unfortunately, JGR is still somewhat outside Debian as it wants Sun's | Java JDK so I don't think I'll ever package it directly. Now, if

Re: JGR with free java (was: GUI for R)

2006-10-22 Thread Andrew Haley
Egon Willighagen writes: On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:51, Andrew Haley wrote: But it fails because of this call: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.1-1.4.2.0/bin/javac -target 1.4 -source 1.4 -target 1.4 -source 1.4 -classpath src/JRI.jar -d examples examples/rtest.java

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Andrew Haley
MrDemeanour writes: Tom Marble wrote: Marcus Better wrote: the pkg-jboss project needs DFSG-free versions of Sun's JavaMail and Java Activation Framework libraries. Can anyone tell me whether the GNU versions (already in Debian) will work out of the box? Why not use Sun's

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Andrew Haley
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: Hi, On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: It certainly doesn't appear on the FSF list of free licences. It is, Hmm, to me it seems that oddly enough FSF considers it free: $ lynx -dump http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license

Re: Re: Java policy draft; a road map proposal...

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew Haley
Pierre Métras writes: Wolfgang Baer wrote: [...] Beside that I recognize the value a Java Developer Guide could have. I definitely agree, many thanks Pierre for volunteer :-D OK, I volunteer but I'll start small, improving the wiki content when I find some time...

Re: Azureus finally no longer needs non-free java. It works with gij.

2006-03-14 Thread Andrew Haley
Mladen Adamovic writes: robin putters wrote: How about uploading an Azureus 'pure' debian package to experimental, while GCJ4.1 is not in unstable yet? Did you test Azureus properly, and not just be able to compile it? Guys from Red Hat included GCJ compiled Eclipse in Fedora core 4

Re: Azureus finally no longer needs non-free java. It works with gij.

2006-03-14 Thread Andrew Haley
Mladen Adamovic writes: Andrew Haley wrote: Did you test Azureus properly, and not just be able to compile it? Guys from Red Hat included GCJ compiled Eclipse in Fedora core 4 (Native Eclipse) and it was so unstable that in fact it was completely useless. Shame on them

Re: Java policy draft

2006-03-03 Thread Andrew Haley
Re debugging info -- I put this patch into ecj on Fedora: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2006-January/msg00086.html This patch means that no matter what broken debug options are in Ant scripts, every Java program in an RPM has full debuginfo. Essentially, this turns a

Re: Java policy draft

2006-03-03 Thread Andrew Haley
Andrew Haley writes: Re debugging info -- I put this patch into ecj on Fedora: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2006-January/msg00086.html This patch means that no matter what broken debug options are in Ant scripts, every Java program in an RPM has full

Re: Install a Java IDE

2006-02-28 Thread Andrew Haley
CasperLinux writes: I think you misunderstood my purpose: On Monday 27 February 2006 10:03, Michael Koch wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:51:10AM -0500, CasperLinux wrote: I am starting to learn programming Java (and programming in general for that matter). I'd like to use my

Re: invoking gcj methods from gdb

2006-02-27 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch writes: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 03:45:43AM -0500, Daniel Risacher wrote: While using gdb to debug my native-compiled application, I can step, backtrace, examine local variables, etc. But I cannot seem to invoke a method - doing so causes a segfault. i.e.

Re: Eclipse and Java 1.5 user report

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew Haley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So now I'm using the Debian Eclipse packages with J2SDK 1.5. All the new language features are supported perfectly, and the overall performance seems much better. I hope you guys are not angry about that, but for me using Sun's proprietary Java VM is just the

Re: Tip: use of GDB with Java/gcj (and ant)

2006-02-15 Thread Andrew Haley
Daniel Risacher writes: I recently started developing with gcj on debian and wanted to use gdb for debugging, but I've struggled a bit with it. I had actually composed a lengthy set of questions to ask here on the list, but in writing the email, I stumbled across the answer, which I

Re: Trying to build jonas deb package

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew Haley
I have succesfully built JOnAS on FC5. There are a lot of dependencies. The FC5 packages I needed to install for the build were: tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api.i386 5.0.30-8jpp_9fc jdom.noarch 1.0-1jpp_2fc.1 werken.xpath.noarch 0.9.4-0.beta.9jpp_2fc velocity.noarch 1.4-3jpp_3fc struts.i386

Re: GCJ ICEs on SWT for GTK 3.1.2

2006-02-06 Thread Andrew Haley
Michael Koch writes: On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:02:22PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: If anybody here has the time to look into this GCJ ICE, I'd greatly appreciate it. You should file/report such bugs upstream (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/). Most of the upstream people are RH

Re: Trying to build jonas deb package

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Haley
Wolfgang Baer writes: Hi Praveen, ê­ðõ ã­ Ï (Praveen A) wrote: 2006/1/20, ê­ðõ ã­ Ï (Praveen A) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I' m trying to figure out how to build jonas for debian. I am a newbie to debian packaging. If anyone alse is working on the same thing it would great

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