Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> I have confirmed that this is the problem by replacing “while
> (VMFile.exists(file.path))” with “while (false)”.  The build doesn’t
> fully complete then either, but it gets past the compilation of the Ant
> source files.  This clears JamVM and Jikes.

It doesn’t.

VMFile.exists always returns “true”, no matter what.  The C part is
fine, but the Java part is not, so I suspected the JVM to be at fault.

I managed to build ant-bootstrap successfully with this patch: