Gregory Shimansky wrote: > On Sunday 25 June 2006 17:26 Mark Hindess wrote: >> On 24 June 2006 at 22:38, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Mark Hindess wrote: >>>> On 24 June 2006 at 14:44, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>>>> Btw I've figured why kernel.jar has to be added to >>>>> bootclasspath.properties before luni.jar. They have many classes with >>>>> the same name but different code (Class, ClassLoader, Thread, System, >>>>> String to mention a few). So if luni.jar goes first in bootclasspath, >>>>> then all of those kernel classes implementations are taken from >>>>> classlib which isn't very good because they should be taken from VM's >>>>> kernel.jar. So there is no surprise that it doesn't work. >>>> Oops... I can't believe we didn't spot this before! ... >>> That's a regression :-( We used to specifically exclude the kernel >>> patternsets from each JAR packaging step. I agree that it should be >>> restored. >> Yes, it's definitely a regression. Probably at least partly my fault, >> so I've fixed it in r417017. >> >> Gregory, this should almost fix the ordering issue except for String >> which has moved out of the kernel classes in to luni. But as Tim says >> the real solution is to load the VM's versions of kernel classes first >> the same way the IBM VME does it. > > Sure I've created a patch to properties parser which adds kernel.jar > unconditionally to the beginning of bootclasspath, and filters out everything > which isn't beginning with bootclasspath.[0-9] so no *.source and other > properties appear in the property.
Ok, that will work. As I said earlier, an alternative is to participate in the Harmony launcher since it can set up VM-specific options via a properties file, and create the portlib, etc. Perhaps that can wait for a 'round two' ;-) Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
