JDB problems with glibc2 jdk1.2

[jes@ncgr.org (Jason E. Stewart)]

I'm running the jdk12-pre-v2 for glibc2, and tried to use jdb. I got
the following error:

~/work/KidPad-July-14/kidpad $ jdb 
Initializing jdb...
[debugger: starting child: /usr/local/jdk12_pre-v2_test/jre/bin/java -Xdebug -Djava.compiler=NONE  -Xbootclasspath/a:/usr/local/jdk12_pre-v2_test/lib/tools.jar  sun.tools.agent.EmptyApp]
Reaped pid = 2074, status = 1
[Internal debugger error: Failed to exec a child java interpreter with this command line: /usr/local/jdk12_pre-v2_test/jre/bin/java -Xdebug -Djava.compiler=NONE  -Xbootclasspath/a:/usr/local/jdk12_pre-v2_test/lib/tools.jar  sun.tools.agent.EmptyApp]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError
	at sun.tools.debug.RemoteAgent.error(RemoteAgent.java:1409)
	at sun.tools.debug.RemoteAgent.<init>(RemoteAgent.java:243)
	at sun.tools.debug.RemoteDebugger.<init>(RemoteDebugger.java:63)
	at sun.tools.ttydebug.TTY.<init>(TTY.java:1633)
	at sun.tools.ttydebug.TTY.main(TTY.java:1809)

Somehow the arguments get mangled (i.e. the -Xbootclasspath/a:/usr/...
argument). When I substitute -classpath /usr/... it works fine. Any
idea of how/why jdb is mangling the argument info?

jas.

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