Re: Bug#147621: gettext: msginit loses on web fetch (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Santiago Vila wrote:

> sh lib/javacomp.sh --version gives "3.0.4" (gcj) and
> sh lib/javaexec.sh --version gives:
> 
> gij (GNU libgcj) version 0.0.7

> I get the errors like these:
> 
> Retrieving 
> http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/registry.cgi?team=index...java.lang.IllegalAccessError
>    at 0x4016e218: java.lang.Throwable.Throwable() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.2)
>    at 0x401647c4: java.lang.Error.Error() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.2)
>    at 0x40166908: java.lang.LinkageError.LinkageError() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.2)
>    at 0x401656a4: 
> java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError.IncompatibleClassChangeError() 
> (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.2)
>    at 0x40165404: java.lang.IllegalAccessError.IllegalAccessError() 
> (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.2)
>    at 0x40143d5a: _Jv_ResolvePoolEntry(java.lang.Class, int) 
> (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.2)
>    at 0x4014b46a: _Jv_InterpMethod.continue1(_Jv_InterpMethodInvocation) 
> (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.2)

Thanks for the report. gcj 3.0.4 (and also gcj 3.1) is generating
invalid bytecode for the inner class occurring in GetURL.java. I've
turned this into a bug report against GCC 3.1, and I'm modifying
the gettext javacomp.m4 macro to exclude gcj versions 3.0* and 3.1*.

Bruno