[Swift-devel] coaster status report

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 16:59 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:

> - on queenbee, initial run got this error:
> 
> 	Could not start coaster service
> Caused by:
> 	Task ended before registration was received.
> STDOUT: Warning: -jar not understood. Ignoring.
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
> .tmp.bootstrap.y10420
>     at gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.run() (/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
> 
> Turns out default java was 1.4.2 something.

It looks like default java is GCJ which I wouldn't dare call "Java"
because it probably fails too many compliance tests.

> 
> We added @default to .soft to get Java 1.6.
> Then coasters bootstrapped fine. This was nice to see, that a simple 
> workaround was easy!

Right. Good call.