[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-java RFU

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 05:49:17PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2008-07-17 16:48]:
> 
> > * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2008-07-17 13:56]:
> > 
> > > octave-java builds fine for me using pbuilder, maby you would like to
> > > add something to the description of the package, its a little short
> > > and I don't know what else to write about it. Else I think it is ready
> > > to be uploaded.
> > 
> > I will take a look at it this evening.
> 
> Could you please add the appropriate build-depends that make jni.h available?

Sorry, this was of course completely wrong of me, the package does not
at all build for me :-(

This java thing is tricky, I tried with using kaffe (which provides
the jni.h) but that does not work (at least the resulting .deb file
has no executables in it, just the .m files) and I can't seem to get
it to recognise sun-java6-jdk, but I think that is because
sun-java6-jdk is in non-free.

Here are some snips from the buld process:

checking for java... java
checking for javac... javac
checking for jar... jar
checking for Java version... 

<snip>

octave-forge is configured with
   octave:      octave (version 3.0.1)
   mkoctfile:	mkoctfile for Octave 1
   java:        Java Development Kit not found


So the configure process finds java but octave does not by some
reason. I think it is because it needs sun-java6-jdk but that would
make the package build-depend on a non-free package, should the
octave-java package itself not go into contrib?

Cheers

Oli