[Swift-user] first.swift issues

[Michael Wilde]

Alex, it sounds like you may be gettuing a different (old?) version of Java.

Can you try this on communicado.ci.uchicago.edu, and add this line to 
the front of your .soft file:

+java-sun 


- Mike

On 5/29/09 1:20 PM, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> Hi, Alex
> 
> I tried the swift in your home dir, assuming that is the one you are 
> using. It works for me.
> [zzhang at communicado amoore2]$ export PATH=/home/amoore2/swift-0.9/bin:$PATH
> [zzhang at communicado amoore2]$ which swift
> /home/amoore2/swift-0.9/bin/swift
> [zzhang at communicado amoore2]$ cd 
> /home/zzhang/swift_coaster/cog/modules/swift/examples/
> [zzhang at communicado examples]$ swift first.swift
> Swift 0.9 swift-r2860 cog-r2388
> 
> RunID: 20090529-1318-ada6yjqb
> Progress:
> Final status:  Finished successfully:1
> 
> zhao
> 
> Alex Moore wrote:
>> Following the quick start guide to install swift on my CI account.
>> When I try execute: swift first.swift I get the following message:
>> "-Xmx256m not understood. Ignoring
>> log4j:ERROR Error occurred while converting date.
>> java.lan.IllegalArgumentExcepion: Illegal pattern character at
>> java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(java.util.Date, ..."
>>
>> It continues on for at least another page. This happens when I log in
>> on both login.ci.uchicago.edu and communicado.ci.uchicago.edu. I tried
>> deleting and reinstalling as well. I'm using swift-0.9
>>
>> Also, the first.swift file in package is different from the one in the
>> swift tutorial. In swift-0.9, first.swift starts off with:
>>
>> type messagefile;
>>
>> app (messagefile t) greeting () {
>>     echo "Hello, world!"......
>>
>> While the swift tutorial has:
>>
>> type messagefile;
>>
>> (messagefile t) greeting () {
>>    app { echo "Hello, world!"......
>>
>>
>> I changed first.swift to what was listed in the swift tutorial, and I
>> got the same error message. Thank for your help.
>> -Alex Moore
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