Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> I have confirmed that this is the problem by replacing “while
>> (VMFile.exists(file.path))” with “while (false)”. The build doesn’t
>> fully complete then either, but it gets past the compilation of the Ant
>> source files. This clears JamVM and Jikes.
>
> It doesn’t.
>
> VMFile.exists always returns “true”, no matter what. The C part is
> fine, but the Java part is not, so I suspected the JVM to be at fault.
>
> I managed to build ant-bootstrap successfully with this patch: […]
Here’s a shorter patch:
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/java.scm b/gnu/packages/java.scm
index 403c446a82..bd98784232 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/java.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/java.scm
@@ -152,6 +152,13 @@ and binary format defined in The Java Virtual Machine
Specification.")
"--disable-gjdoc")
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (add-after 'unpack 'foo
+ (lambda _
+ (substitute* "native/jni/java-io/java_io_VMFile.c"
+ (("result = cpio_isFileExists.*" m)
+ (string-append m "
+//Without a long comment the Java side will return \"true\" on x86_64 all the
time.")))
+ #t))
(add-after 'install 'install-data
(lambda _ (invoke "make" "install-data"))))))
(native-inputs
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This only adds a comment. If the comment is too short it won’t work.
I suspected some misguided optimizations, so I built jamvm-1-bootstrap
and classpath-bootstrap with -O0, -O1, and I disabled stripping of
binaries, but to no avail.
Any ideas?
--
Ricardo
