Hi! I observed 3 problems when running on FreeBSD 7.2.
1) I need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to VM's 'bin' directory, even to print version or help. Seems like '-rpath $ORIGIN' ld option does not work on FreeBSD. This problem also appeared for me on FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0. Of course, we may rename java to java-bin and use shell-script, be maybe I'm just missing some FreeBSD know-how... 2) When running in JIT mode on x86, VM crashes in classloader called from compile-me stub in JITted code, because of corrupted Method* passed. I have failed to investigate it the fist time I met this problem, and dropped the matter. On the other hand, I was able to run Eclipse with -Xint, so looks like threading works here. 3) On x86_64 JIT works fine for me, but VM crashes in debug mode on assertion in low-level threading. JVMTI tests in JIT mode may also fail because of lack of thread-local data. I'm investigating the problem. I will get access to FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 soon, and will also check it for problems with running Harmony VM. 2010/2/27 Mark Hindess <mark.hind...@googlemail.com>: > > In message <201002240929.o1o9tjxi028...@d06av04.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>, > Mark Hindess writes: >> >> In message <4b84a88e.3070...@p6m7g8.com>, "Philip M. Gollucci" writes: >> > >> > Hi harmony!, >> >> Hi! >> >> > We might be looking to start using harmony on people.apache.org >> > (minotaur) after we update to stable/8 since the freebsd port >> > java/jdk16 is having compile issues right now. >> > >> > Compile log is available here: >> > http://tb.apache.org/errors/8-STABLE-people/jdk-1.6.0.3p4_14.log >> > >> > If you have any insights into the above issue please reply to me >> > directly or on infrastruct...@. >> >> We can't really help with that. Since Harmony contributors are by >> definition not permitted to look at details of the non-ALv2 compatible >> implementations of java and looking at compile logs might expose us to >> such details. >> >> > Additionally, we'd be interested in knowing how well supported harmony >> > is on FreeBSD 8 and how well it would work with ant, anika, and >> > velocity [aka be able to build www.apache.org and others at minimum] >> >> I have no idea about the current status. Way back in 6.3 days I did >> get drlvm/classlib to build on FreeBSD but there were thread library >> issues (with either of the three thread library choices at the time) >> that prevented it from running. I don't recall clearly but I think >> this had to do with recursive mutexes. The details will be in the mail >> archives. >> >> If I get a moment, I'll set up a FreeBSD 8 system and take a look at >> the current state of things. > > I updated the freebsd icu dependency downloads so now harmony builds on > FreeBSD 8.0 x86 and x86_64 straight out of svn. It seems to run with > -Xint but not with the jit. There are some fundamental issues with > sockets but otherwise the class library behaviour looks pretty good. > > I've fixed one socket issue (for some insane reason "(new > Socket()).connect(addr)" does a bind which current platforms don't seem > to mind but it is wrong and FreeBSD rightly complains). I'll check this > fix in after the code freeze but if anyone wants the fix let me know and > I'll attach it to a JIRA. > > This clears up client socket issues but there are some server socket > issues with bind syscalls being called with the wrong address. I'm > looking at these now. > > Once I've cleared up the classlib issues I'll try to find time to > investigate why running with the jit doesn't work. > > Regards, > Mark. > > > > -- Ilya.
