java stability

sblaineyuk · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 34

Using the stable blackdown-jdk (1.4.1-r1) I attempted to compile jboss (which is masked ~sparc) and all it's dependancies (which are not).

During the compile of the 10-15 java packages one failed with a JVM error - I thought that was odd so I just tried again with "emerge jboss" and it picked up where it left off, sucessfully compiling the previously offending package.

Then, arriving at the jboss package itself I had a number of failures (3-4) so I wrote a little script which ran "emerge jboss" until it got a return code of 0, and sure enough it compiled it (eventually - and I don't know how many goes it took!).

Has anyone else experienced these somewhat "random" JVM errors? (Unfortunately I don't have access to the machine from here so I can't post the actual errors - but if it will help anyone I can get the error files).

gust4voz · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

Yes, the JVM isn't quite stable on Linux/SPARC and we're probably dropping it in the near future since it's stopping us from upgrading toolchain stuff like glibc.
Try ditching the sandbox, that usually helps a bit though it's not a nice solution (FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox").
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sblaineyuk · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 34

Just to complete the thread I tried to start up jboss twice and both times it died. I'm not really surprised given the trouble I had building it...

If anyone's interested I'm happy to post the errors.

As an aside since this package has been marked as "~sparc" does that mean that someone somewhere has actually gotten it to work? Or is "~" just given to all packages which aren't stable?