From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 75825 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2017 19:49:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 75807 invoked by uid 89); 27 Feb 2017 19:49:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=clicking, periods, harness, H*Ad:U*mauve-discuss X-HELO: mail-it0-f49.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f49.google.com) (209.85.214.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:49:28 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f49.google.com with SMTP id h10so64929182ith.1 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:49:29 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:organization:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=+z/7cwuT5x2xSEQxCsKuol9oSZo9tzZpqdD5KL2GTD0=; b=ktLei1Dz5rgKyqND347GOJtz35e3yrI1uBePGeMisVWYrNHynSUB0+qgC3JgYjV7RU uo5+LqiXgyJ+ayf1+XQStBqjwmPZJfHn+8KAWy4BthMYIIEbfi53SxFRuoZHaZPJSR84 e99Rwp7xUpIYF5VgsXdyaC/GNEWZ+X8mhmt7LX7+lqtc+VwVMVf4ruSiJ2L6/iYDftja hW9H+AulHAhX+HsJkzWRdEkr0d4MzuWKl/iPFCx29rFPDoHBMwYMj1YMsZKFAy29hJDZ EygAxHZicr7BQjNI7K/NaaxGVxeOCsVL4PoBiIIWWuOMJwiCaJ52/N6moHrscwmt75jN wSUw== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39nJ+3ExKRNySM9WdivY4M7C/XoP1Sd5pcZVC5JG7SPD00VoTJNcMopEFeUHBIX7EIPp X-Received: by 10.36.0.130 with SMTP id 124mr16654055ita.89.1488224967548; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([142.245.184.39]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 202sm4687574ity.8.2017.02.27.11.49.26 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:49:27 -0800 (PST) From: Anthony Green To: Tiago Daitx Cc: mauve-discuss@sourceware.org, dbhole@redhat.com Subject: Re: Project status References: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:49:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Tiago Daitx's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:17:42 -0300") Message-ID: <87zih7pg6y.fsf@laptop.atgreen.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-q1/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 I don't believe this project is actively maintained or supported, but I'm adding somebody on copy who may know otherwise. AG Tiago Daitx writes: > Hi, > > I have been trying to follow up on Mauve and to build it, but that has > not been working really well. > > First of all, the project is lacking a web presence, it seems dead > outside the CVS repo. Most of the links from the main page at > sourceware [1] are not working: > > - "Download" [2] points to nightly snapshots [3] which is empty > - "CVS" [4] points to the cvsweb [5] which then redirects to a > repository listing [6] where mauve is missing > - The mailing lists archives seem to indicate some activity > (month/year links which seem to skip periods with no activity), but > clicking on the respective month/year leads to a "No messages here"; > the exception here is a single message in mauve-patches for 2017 that > seems pretty much like spam > > Checking out CVS repository does show that the last commits are dated > 8/April/2016. > > The README seems to be out of date, as some arguments for the > configure script have been removed on a previous commit > (--with-bootclasspath, --with-gcj). > > Trying to run the testsuite (java Harness) brings up lots of errors > when using the autocompile. > > Trying to compile the gnu/testlet testsuite before hand will also > throw out errors with both gcj as well as openjdk. > > For gcj-5 (full log at [7]): > $ cd gnu/testlet > $ /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/javac -nowarn -cp ../../:. . > ... > 148 problems (148 errors) > > For openjdk-8 (full log at [8]): > $ cd gnu/testlet > $ find -name '*.java' -type f | sort -u > java_files > $ javac -cp /usr/share/java/libgcj-5.jar:../../:. -g -source 1.5 > -target 1.5 -nowarn @java_files > ... > 32 errors > > Trying to run the tests after compiling also does not work that well, > lots of errors like: > FAIL: gnu.java.security.hash.TestOfHashFactory > line 42: TestOfHashFactory [1] -- uncaught exception: > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/java/security/hash/HashFactory > > even though /usr/share/java/libgcj-5.jar is in the classpath and > contains the class. > > It would be nice if I could get some pointers on what I'm doing wrong > and on whether the project is still being supported. > > Best regards, > Tiago > > [1] https://www.sourceware.org/mauve/ > [2] https://www.sourceware.org/mauve/download.html > [3] ftp://sourceware.org/pub/mauve/snapshot/ > [4] https://www.sourceware.org/mauve/cvs.html > [5] http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=mauve > [6] https://sourceware.org/viewvc > [7] https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24054344/ > [8] https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24054354/