Re: classpath-0.03 and Jaos

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 15:00, Brian Jones wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > * my VMSystem.java is modified (I added my own properties in
> > insertSystemProperties)
> 
> This shouldn't matter.  In fact when we do zip these things
> maybe we should zip the vm dependent stuff separately.

That is a good idea.

> > * lib/glibj.zip was not created automatically. I tried to "make
> > glibj.zip", but to no use. Apparently my $(ZIP) is not set. So I run
> > the command by hand.
> 
> Our Character class doesn't like to be in a zip apparently.  We have
> to fix this soon.

Sorry about this. All tests that I ran before the release had been
without the zip file, so when this issue was found the support for
generating glibj.zip was yanked at the last minute. I should have known
about this issue with Character because the Orp developers had already
submitted a patch for it. But I ignored it for this release because the
paperwork was not completely done. It is also a bit ugly workaround
since Character is such an important class when bootstrapping the
system. We should really make the static initializers of java.lang
classes depend less on other parts of the library.

Cheers,

Mark