Re: Bug#594816: db4.8: FTBFS on mips (configure reports garbage)
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 08:43:32PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Package: db4.8
> Version: 4.8.30-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source
>
> configure fails with:
> > configure: error: No unsigned 1-byte integral type
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=db4.8;ver=4.8.30-1;arch=mips;stamp=1282685080
>
> aurel32 says configure is buggy and doesn't handle java not being
> openjdk (gcj is used on mips), but he didn't have time to
> investigate/fix, so if somebody else can step up that would be nice.
>
The problem is not specific to mips, sparc64 has the same problem. A
workaround for that is to disable java support.
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