[Ganymede Help] Re: an FYI on a couple of errors I ran into a new install

[Jonathan Abbey <jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:24:45AM -0600, Wick, Kent wrote:
| HW: RS/6000	OS: AIX 4.3.3 Lvl 10	Java 1.3.1
| 
| I was getting the same error as mentioned by Maura Mathieu
| (mail item on the 'Help' mail list dated Jan 30, 2003) about Java squawking
| about the StringBuffer method not found.  You may want to include this
| in future README files.

No, this is a bug that needs to be fixed.  It turns out that the
StringBuffer append method taking a StringBuffer parameter wasn't
added to the JDK until 1.4.  I have modified the code in question to
call .toString() on the StringBuffer parameters in that code so that
this problem won't arise in 1.3.1 any more.

I'm a bit disturbed that I've only had two complaints about this over
the last several months, particularly given that the advice I gave
Maura Mathieu, while a successful work around, did not really address
the basic problem.  tap, tap, tap.. is this thing on?

I'll try to put out a new build soon with this fixed.

| Also: in the runServer script, the RMIGC variable needs to have quote
| marks around the value.  As it exists in the distribution, because there
| is a space in there, the shell (ksh here) complains about "-Dxxxxx not
| found"
| There error message is in the same mail item as mentioned above.

Right, I'll fix that, thanks.

| No need to reply.  Just thought you might want to know about these.
| ====================================================
| Kent Wick,  TxMHMR,  Unix/Network Systems Programmer
| Email:  kent.wick@mhmr.state.tx.us
| Phone:  (512) 206-5931   Fax:  (512) 206-4838
| Snail mail:  PO Box 12668, Austin, Tx 78711-2668

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Jonathan Abbey 				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
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