Bug#660719: RFP: Netlogo -- Agent-based programming language and integrated modeling environment

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> Hi.  Did you try to build it on Debian?  How hard is it to build on
> Wheezy or unstable?

I gave it a go on Squeeze, and the build failed.  The default build
rule expect to use SUN Java 6, and I patched it to use OpenJDK
instead.  The build downloaded heaps of supporting libraries, and
finally failed with this error when I tested by running ./nightly.sh:

[info] Compiling 15 Scala sources to /home/pere/src/debian/NetLogo/project/target/scala-2.9.2/sbt-0.12/classes...
[error] /home/pere/src/debian/NetLogo/project/I18n.scala:27: object native2ascii is not a member of package sun.tools
[error]     (new sun.tools.native2ascii.Main).convert(
[error]                    ^
[error] one error found
[error] (compile:compile) Compilation failed

I guess it will take a while to port it to OpenJDK and teach it to
only use packages in Debian.  I am not skilled enough with Java
packaging to do so myself. :(

This was the patch I used:

diff --git a/sbt b/sbt
index 9fc45d7..bd9f667 100755
--- a/sbt
+++ b/sbt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ if [[ `uname -s` == *CYGWIN* ]] ; then
 else
   CURR_DIR=`dirname $0`
   if [ `uname -s` = Linux ] ; then
-    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
+    export JAVA_HOME=/usr
   else
     if [ `uname -s` = Darwin ] ; then
       export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -F -v1.6*`

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen