Hi Krystal,
Yes, that's exactly the same problem I ran into. Your patch is much more comprehensive than mine. I downloaded a few dependencies by hand during the build, but couldn't remember which ones they were. Thanks a lot for the patch!
You're welcome. Feel free to feed it into the MRP issue tracker, if Ian Rogers doesn't pull changes from Jikes RVM anymore.
By the way, have you run tests on Jikes RVM with Harmony? The last time I built MRP on Ubuntu, which was sometime in May, it couldn't even run HelloWorld, but threw some error message like this during VM startup: *JikesRVM: unexpected hardware trap outside of RVM address space* Something was obviously wrong with zlib, as the VM seem to have crashed in zlib's inflate_table(). But Jikes RVM/MRP doesn't use zlib directly, do they? So it seem rather like a problem in the class library instead. Haven't investigated into the problem yet, just want to know if anyone had the same problem before.
Yes, a number of tests in the "tiny" test suite (I assume MRP has the same suite somewhere under ./testing) also exhibit this problem -- but not all, though.
That being said, I haven't investigated this problem yet, as I first wanted to get the patch to the build scripts out of the door before filing yet another bug report. If you want to investigate further, however, I think we could team up (off-list) on this; I guess Jikes RVM and MRP don't differ significantly with respect to this issue. (Ultimately, I want Jikes RVM to use version 6.0-MR3+ of Harmony, as I need to run some Scala 2.8 programs on it -- and Scala makes judicious use of newer JRE features.)
Best wishes, Andreas
