Trouble building Babel
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
subsequent make, or debian/rules build, completes the build
successfully, and the .jar produced by that force-jarfile seems to work
perfectly.
Can I ask for some help on understanding why this isn't working? The
package status is at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/babel.html with a link
to the directory where you can download the package files.
Second, the package uses Java to generate source code which is then
compiled, producing arch-dependent packages. So debian/rules
binary-arch requires that the binary-independent Java stuff be there,
and thus compiled for each architecture, even though it will only be
included in one set of arch-independent packages. This seems
inefficient; is there a way to have the arch-dependent part build-dep on
the arch-independent part, without splitting the source package in two?
If not, I'll just have to waste the autobuilders' time building the
Java stuff needed to build the arch-dependent stuff.
Finally, why does kaffe require that one include the most basic runtime
library in -classpath?
[Please CC me in replies, since I'm not subscribed.]
Thanks,
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