I just tried to compile a distribution of RoboVM, untar it, then run bin/robovm. The jar refuses to launch due to a missmatch in signature it seems:
badlogic-mbp:robovm-0.0.5-SNAPSHOT badlogic$ bin/robovm
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.SecurityException: Invalid signature file digest for Manifest main attributes
at sun.security.util.SignatureFileVerifier.processImpl(SignatureFileVerifier.java:240)
at sun.security.util.SignatureFileVerifier.process(SignatureFileVerifier.java:193)
at java.util.jar.JarVerifier.processEntry(JarVerifier.java:305)
at java.util.jar.JarVerifier.update(JarVerifier.java:216)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.initializeVerifier(JarFile.java:345)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.getInputStream(JarFile.java:412)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader$2.getInputStream(URLClassPath.java:752)
at sun.misc.Resource.cachedInputStream(Resource.java:77)
at sun.misc.Resource.getByteBuffer(Resource.java:160)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:436)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)