Re: GCC 3.2 suddenly fails every java test, CLASSPATH wrong

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:01:29AM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> All of a sudden, every test in the java testsuite is failing in GCC-3.2:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2002-08/msg00486.html
> 
> It's not just me:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2002-08/msg00462.html
> 
> In the logfile, all of the failures look like this:
> 
>  > Can't find default package `java.lang'. Check the CLASSPATH
>  > 	environment variable and the access to the archives
>  > 1 error
> 
> The code in /libjava/testsuite/lib/libjava.exp is not setting the
> CLASSPATH correctly:
> 
>  >     # Determine the version so we can find the libgcj jar file.
>  >     set text [eval exec "$GCJ_UNDER_TEST --version 2>@ stdout"]
>  >     regexp -- "gcj \[^ \]+ (\[^ \]+) .*" $text ignore gcc_version
>  >     verbose "jar file is libgcj-$gcc_version.jar"
>  > 
>  >     [...]
>  > 
>  >     # Set the CLASSPATH environment variable
>  >     verbose "CLASSPATH is
>  >     .:$srcdir/$subdir:$objdir:$objdir/../libgcj-$gcc_version.jar"
>  >     global env
>  >     set env(CLASSPATH)
>  >     ".:$srcdir/$subdir:$objdir:$objdir/../libgcj-$gcc_version.jar"
> 
> I think the regexp expects the date and "(prerelease)" strings which
> normally appear, and when the version simply becomes "3.2" for the
> actual release it gets confused.  I don't know this stuff well enough
> to suggest a fix that works for both prerelease and actual release.
> 

I was wondering the same thing. This works

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2002-08/msg00457.html

because I have gcc 3.2 installed on that machine. All my other machines
failed. I thought it might be my new binutils :-). It has to be fixed.


H.J.