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[Panagiotis Astithas]

Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:10:03PM +0200, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>> Jonathan Chen wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:00:47PM -0600, Derek Young wrote:
>>>> Too busy this weekend to make a pr or check if one is there, blah
>>>> blah.. Ran portupgrade this morning to jdk14 patchset 8, and eclipse
>>>> got upgraded at the same time..
>>>>
>>>> An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
>>>> Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x286DCF57
>>>> Function=inflate_fast+0x17
>>>> Library=/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/lib/i386/libzip.so
>>> A similar bug to this is be solved by:
>>>
>>>    portupgrade -uf freetype\* fontconfig\* libXft\*
>>>
>>> However, having said this, I upgraded eclipse just yesterday, and this
>>> workaround did not work. The `inflate_fast+0x17' bug also exists for
>>> eclipse + JDK1.5. I wonder if this could this be fixed by using the
>>> system zlib instead of the one shipped with the JDK.
>> FWIW, I'm still running with the patch that uses the system zlib on 
>> jdk15 and I've never encountered any related crash using eclipse daily 
>> on my day job. This is on i386, though.
> 
> Would you mind sharing the patch with the rest of the list? If it
> works well enough, we could maybe include it in the port as an option.
> 
> Cheers.

It was posted on this list by Mikhail Teterin:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2005-October/004487.html

Cheers,

Panagiotis