Bug#345013: kaffe: buggy java.util.zip implementation

[Dalibor Topic]

Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:49:36AM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 
>>Regarding the zip implementation, I would not mind switching Kaffe over 
>>to use the GNU Classpath java.util.zip implementation, if I can see that 
>>it performs as well on the interpreter engine as what we have at the 
>>moment. I need to give it another look, I have not investigated that 
>>recently.
> 
> 
> How could I go at testing the Classpath zip implementation myself? Is
> there a way to do it without rebuilding kaffe? If not, how / with what
> should I patch before building?
> 
> 

You can do it manually without rebuilding kaffe, by unzipping the rt.jar
file from kaffe, replacing java/util/zip with the contents from
classpath's glibj.zip and rezipping it.

It's a bit like a small organ transplantation, but should work :)

cheers,
dalibor topic