[Cp-tools-discuss] Removing of the bytecode.jar from project seems premature.

[Audrius Meskauskas]

The problem, described in my previous letter, can be solved by renaming 
the kawa.jar into bytecode.jar  and placing into /usr/share/java.  Such 
thing probably should be mentioned in INSTALL, and also there must be 
listed that ASM and KAWA are required, which version needed and where to 
get them.  However this does not lead very far, displaying another error 
message: is seems that kawa jar file (both versions 1.8 and 1.7.90) 
cannot be compiled by gcj:

gcj --classpath=.:/usr/share/java/bytecode.jar:/usr/share/java/asm.jar 
-fassume-compiled -I./src -I -Isrc/jars/bytecode.jar -Isrc/jars/asm.jar 
-I. -g -O2 -MT src/jars/bytecode.lo -MD -MP -MF 
src/jars/.deps/bytecode.Tpo -c src/jars/bytecode.jar  -fPIC -o 
src/jars/.libs/bytecode.o
gnu/jemacs/lisp/simple.el: In class 'gnu.jemacs.lisp.simple':
gnu/jemacs/lisp/simple.el: In method 
'gnu.jemacs.lisp.simple.popGlobalMark()':
gnu/jemacs/lisp/simple.el:1818: internal compiler error: in 
gimplify_expr, at gimplify.c:3987
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.
make[1]: *** [src/jars/bytecode.lo] Error 1

Why to compile an archive with java .class files? If this does not work 
anyway, how to turn this off? I tried --without-gnu-bytecode, but this 
also ends with error.

To my opinion, it must be possible to build any project after installing 
all packages listed in INSTALL and then following the instructions, 
described in INSTALL (in the case of this project, configure, make and 
make install).  This fails by compiler crash on gnu.jemacs.lisp.simple. 
Probably some older version of the bytecode.jar was compileable, or 
maybe another gcj compiler is required (using gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 
(Red Hat 4.0.2-8)).  If the compiler version is critical, this shuld 
also be documented.

Maybe I am stupid, but if the project really has building problems, we 
are scaring off potential contributors.

Audrius