Re: Bug#594816: db4.8: FTBFS on mips (configure reports garbage)
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:43:34PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 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.
>
The issue is that the configure script tries to determine java include
libraries. As we are on a Linux system, it looks for
$java_top_directory/include/linux. With openjdk, the java top directory
is "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/" while with gcj it is simply "/usr", so
/usr/include/linux get added to the include search path. This causes
conflicts with the GNU libc headers.
The configure script has a special case when the java top directory is
"/usr", but it fails on Debian as we are using relative symlinks:
test /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/../../../.. '!=' /usr
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