Re: problem while compiling classpath-0.92

["yinjia jia" <jiayinjia1983116@xxxxxxxxx>]

thank you Mark ,do you mean that I should execute "make --debug " to debug the Makefile?
this command give information as below :
[sbox-gtk: ~/classpath-0.92] > make --debug
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
 File `all' does not exist.
   File `all-recursive' does not exist.
  Must remake target `all-recursive'.
Making all in lib
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Reading makefiles...
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/root/classpath-0.92/lib'
true
top_builddir=.. top_srcdir=.. /bin/sh ./gen-classlist.sh standard
Adding java source files from srcdir '..'.
Adding java source files from VM directory ../vm/reference
Updating goal targets....
 File `all' does not exist.
   File `all-am' does not exist.
     File `glibj.zip' does not exist.
       Prerequisite `genclasses' of target `classes' does not exist.
       File `compile-classes' does not exist.
      Must remake target `compile-classes'.
/usr/local/bin/jikes  +Pno-switchcheck +Pno-shadow +F -encoding UTF-8 -bootclasspath '' -extdirs '' -sourcepath '' --classpath ../vm/reference:..:../external/w3c_dom:../external/sax:../external/relaxngDatatype:.:: -d . @classes

2008/10/27 Mark Wielaard <mark@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi yinjia jia,

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 15:23 +0800, yinjia jia wrote:
> /usr/local/bin/jikes  +Pno-switchcheck +Pno-shadow +F -encoding UTF-8
> -bootclasspath '' -extdirs '' -sourcepath ''
> --classpath ../vm/reference:..:../external/w3c_dom:../external/sax:../external/relaxngDatatype:.:: -d . @classes
>
> I wait a long time, but It hang in this stage and not move to next.
> anybody know what is the reasson? or some suggestions? thanks in
> advance!
> my java compiler is jikes-1.22, and I use scratchbox to cross compile
> classpath.

It sounds like a bug in jikes, you might want to attach a debugger to
see what it is doing. Also GNU Classpath 0.92 is pretty old. You might
want to upgrade to 0.97.2 and try a different byte code compiler
(gcj/ecj).

Cheers,

Mark