Control: tags -1 + patch I haven't been able to reproduce the error reported, but I got two other errors due to the use of the now removed source/target level 1.5 in Java 9, and due to the removal of javah in Java 10. This simple modification of JAVACFLAGS in debian/rules fixed these issues:
--- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ endif ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess endif - ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info --with-hdf5=$(HDF5_DIR) CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,defs" CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)" CXXFLAGS="$(CXXFLAGS)" --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java --with-python=/usr JAVACFLAGS="-source 1.5 -target 1.5" + ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info --with-hdf5=$(HDF5_DIR) CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,defs" CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)" CXXFLAGS="$(CXXFLAGS)" --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java --with-python=/usr JAVACFLAGS="-source 1.8 -target 1.8 -h native" sed < libtool > libtool-2 -e 's/^hardcode_libdir_flag_spec.*$$/hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=" -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__ "/' -e '/^archive_cmds="/s/"$$/ \\$$deplibs"/' mv libtool-2 libtool chmod 755 libtool