[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-java FTBFS on most arches

[Sébastien Villemot]

Hi,

In the latest release of octave-java, I introduced a debian/check.m
which runs a few functions from the package. It worked fine on my amd64
box (and apparently on Thomas'), but it fails on all autobuilders except
i386 [1].

I think the failure is spurious and is a race condition. Actually the
first line of debian/check.m is a "disp()" and if I remove it, I can
reproduce the crash on my machine. I really don't know why this is so.

Octave crashes because it says it can't find java_invoke. This function
is autoloaded through PKG_ADD. I don't know if there is a link between
the crash and the fact that octave-pkg-dev does not source PKG_ADD for
debian/check.m. Still I don't understand why it works in some cases and
not in others.

Any hint?

If it turns out to be the easy way out, I am ok with removing this new
debian/check.m.

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=octave-java&suite=sid

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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