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[Tiago Daitx <tiago.daitx@canonical.com>]

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The README seems to be out of date, as some arguments for the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/

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Tiago Stürmer Daitx
Software Engineer
tiago.daitx@canonical.com

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