Patch queue is going down, somewhat. I've been wresting with some odd platforms like sparc-netbsd and sparc-openbsd in order to get Kaffe up and running there with the help of Riccardo Mottola. There is some progress, and there are many interesting compiler warnings to look into. Ultimately, this work should result in a better, cleaner kaffe core.

I've also taken a shot at reducing the immense number of warnings autotools (automake 1.8.3 and autoconf 2.59) generate whenever I regenerate the build system. Most of the warnings come from third party m4 files, like the ones distributed with libtool or gettext. So today I wrote a simple script that copied each m4 file to its own directory, renamed it to configure.ac, called autoupdate on it, and moved it back. It mostly worked, except for a bug or two in autoupdate. I'll push the fixes upstream later. but first I want to squish the warnings produced by gettext m4 macros and libtool.m4.

In other news, it seems like SwingWT could run on Kaffe. That would give us another interesting alternative for those applications using Swing.