Patch: FYI: add '-f' option to gcj-dbtool

[Ranjit Mathew]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:10:50 +0000, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> Ranjit Mathew writes:
>  > Tom Tromey wrote:
>  > > I'm checking this in on the trunk and the 4.0 branch.
>  > >
>  > > This adds a '-f' option to gcj-dbtool, to avoid the existence check
>  > > for the .so.  This can be simpler to use when building an RPM, where
>  > > the .so will not be installed at the time the .db is built.
>  >
>  > The other day I found out that gcj-dbtool crashes with a
>  > NullPointerException if the order of the JAR and DSO files are
>  > switched (as was written in the GCC wiki before I corrected it) as
>  > it tries to read ZIP entries from the DSO. A full stack trace might
>  > also be nice instead of just printing the exception IMHO.
> 
> Hmph.  gcj-dbtool doesn't crash -- it reports, correctly, that the zip
> decoder returned an exception.

Perhaps, but it was a simple mistake on the
user's part and this:

  ~/src/tmp > gcj-dbtool -a foo.db foo.so foo.jar
  error: could not update foo.db: java.lang.NullPointerException

does not seem to tell him (IMHO) what his mistake is or
how he could correct it.

Ranjit.

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