Bug#408888: gcj-4.1: FTBFS on GNU/Hurd

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Samuel Thibault writes:
> Samuel Thibault, le Sat 10 Mar 2007 00:48:31 +0100, a écrit :
> > Matthias Klose, le Fri 09 Mar 2007 09:44:55 +0100, a écrit :
> > > thanks for the patch. Please could you update it for gcj-4.1 from
> > > experimental?
> > 
> > Mmm, there's something odd with gcj-4.1 from experimental: it
> > build-depends on ecj, which itself depends on gij-4.1 (>= 4.1.2-1). How
> > can I break the loop?

No, we need a runtime to run ecj.

> Checking the ecj_3.2.2-0_all.deb, DEBIAN/control really contains
> Depends: gij-4.1 (>= 4.1.2-1), libgcj7-jar (>= 4.1.2-1), java-common (>= 0.23)

java-common is needed; we probably do not need the exect versions on
gij-4.1 and libgcj7-jar (the 4.1.1 ones should do as well).

> But by recompiling ecj by setting with_native and with_rebuild to no,
> I now have a package with
> 
> Depends: java-common (>= 0.23)
> 
> Is that on purpose that debian-provided ecj has dependencies on gij &
> libbgcj7-jar?

see above; one runtime is needed; we maybe can add an alternative
dependency on java1-runtime, but we don't have an equivalent for
libgcj7-jar.

  Matthias