Trouble building Babel

2002-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm trying to build a new package babel (ITP in bug 149148), but am having a bit of trouble. Specifically, the babel build breaks in the middle, the force-jarfile target in the compiler subdir always seems to complete successfully, but then make dies after completing it. A subsequ

j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
[I'm cross-posting to debian-java and debian-mentors, because I'm not sure whether this is a Java question or a packaging question. Please CC me on replies, if possible.] Can anyone suggest why libnbio2-java's build dependency on j2sdk1.3 cannot be satisfied on all 13 platforms? http://qa.deb

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:49:53PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > [I'm cross-posting to debian-java and debian-mentors, because I'm not > sure whether this is a Java question or a packaging question. Please > CC me on replies, if possible.] > > Can anyone suggest why libnbio2-java's build depe

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Last i knew, j2sdk1.3 is not part of debian, be it in main, contrib or > non-free, because it is not possible for us to distribute it because of > the licencing issues. > > Because of that, this particular dependency will never be really > satisfied, the auto builders will not be able to build

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:00:47PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > Last i knew, j2sdk1.3 is not part of debian, be it in main, contrib or > > non-free, because it is not possible for us to distribute it because of > > the licencing issues. > > > > Because of that, this particular dependency w

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Erm, i think it is even worse, i think that the users would need to > install the j2sdk1.3 package or else it will be unusable. This also > means that your package will never enter testing, i think, or maybe > there is some kind of override for contrib/non-free packages. Also, the > j2sdk1.3 is a

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 01:47, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > Mmm, another idea, java is supposed to be arch-independant bytecode, so > > you should maybe build your package arch: all instead of arch: any. > > Oh, I forgot to mention that... nbio is a JNI-based package (it > provides non-blocking

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> gcj is supposed to come with a working jni implementation and comes with > gij (GNU Interpreter for Java) for interpreting bytecode. What exactly > doesn't work with gcj? Could you please file a bug report? > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html > That way we at least know about the issue. > > Also Kaff

Trouble building Babel

2002-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm trying to build a new package babel (ITP in bug 149148), but am having a bit of trouble. Specifically, the babel build breaks in the middle, the force-jarfile target in the compiler subdir always seems to complete successfully, but then make dies after completing it. A subseque

j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
[I'm cross-posting to debian-java and debian-mentors, because I'm not sure whether this is a Java question or a packaging question. Please CC me on replies, if possible.] Can anyone suggest why libnbio2-java's build dependency on j2sdk1.3 cannot be satisfied on all 13 platforms? http://qa.deb

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:49:53PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > [I'm cross-posting to debian-java and debian-mentors, because I'm not > sure whether this is a Java question or a packaging question. Please > CC me on replies, if possible.] > > Can anyone suggest why libnbio2-java's build depe

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Last i knew, j2sdk1.3 is not part of debian, be it in main, contrib or > non-free, because it is not possible for us to distribute it because of > the licencing issues. > > Because of that, this particular dependency will never be really > satisfied, the auto builders will not be able to build

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:00:47PM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > Last i knew, j2sdk1.3 is not part of debian, be it in main, contrib or > > non-free, because it is not possible for us to distribute it because of > > the licencing issues. > > > > Because of that, this particular dependency w

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> Erm, i think it is even worse, i think that the users would need to > install the j2sdk1.3 package or else it will be unusable. This also > means that your package will never enter testing, i think, or maybe > there is some kind of override for contrib/non-free packages. Also, the > j2sdk1.3 is a

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 01:47, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > Mmm, another idea, java is supposed to be arch-independant bytecode, so > > you should maybe build your package arch: all instead of arch: any. > > Oh, I forgot to mention that... nbio is a JNI-based package (it > provides non-blocking

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

2002-11-15 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
> gcj is supposed to come with a working jni implementation and comes with > gij (GNU Interpreter for Java) for interpreting bytecode. What exactly > doesn't work with gcj? Could you please file a bug report? > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html > That way we at least know about the issue. > > Also Kaff