libgcj/9077: gij is unable to run some programs in the NBIO test suite

[Matthias Klose <doko at debian dot org>]

>Number:         9077
>Category:       libgcj
>Synopsis:       gij is unable to run some programs in the NBIO test suite
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 28 03:06:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kenneth Pronovici <kenneth.pronovici@cedar-solutions.com>
>Release:        3.2.2 CVS 20021212 (Debian) (Debian unstable)
>Organization:
The Debian Project
>Environment:
System: Debian GNU/Linux (unstable)
Architecture: i686
host: i386-linux
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,pascal,objc,ada --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.2 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-objc-gc i386-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2 20021212 (Debian prerelease)
>Description:
[ Reported to the Debian BTS as report #172031.
  Please CC 172031@bugs.debian.org on replies.
  Log of report can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/172031 ]
	

[ Bug submitter did pass the information in this bug report off to Tom Tromey]

Package: gij-3.2
Version: 1:3.2.2-0pre0
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

In converting the libnbio2-java package to build with all free tools, I
have discovered that gij is not able to run some programs that are part
of the NBIO test suite, although other interepreters such as Kaffe can.

There was a long discussion in debian-java on the general subject of
converting NBIO, starting here:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2002/debian-java-200211/msg00038.html

A discussion of the problems I had with gij starts near here:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2002/debian-java-200211/msg00047.html

At the time of this conversation, I passed the information in this bug
report off to Tom Tromey because he asked for it; I decided it would be
worthwhile to file a bug, as well.

The bug can be reproduced by first installing the libnbio2-java
package, version 2.0-5, and then building and running part of the NBIO
test suite based on the installed NBIO jarfile.  The attached file
'script-gij' provides a recipe to reproduce the problem, assuming that
the libnio2-java package is already installed.  (I hope the attachment
is OK; reportbug hosed it previously, and this time I attached it 
directly from mutt.)

Version 2.0-5 of libnbio2-java may or may not be in the archive when you
get this report, since my sponsor may not have had a chance to upload
it yet.  If you don't want to wait for it to appear the archive before
researching this bug, you can get it using this apt data source:

   # Cedar Solutions updates
   deb ftp://cedar-solutions.com/debian unstable main
   deb-src ftp://cedar-solutions.com/debian unstable main

or you can just grab it directly via FTP:

   ftp://cedar-solutions.com/debian/java/libnbio2-java/

Please let me know if there is any other information I can get you.
I'd be happy to help in any way that I can.

KEN

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