[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#735557: transition: octave3.8

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 20:17:05 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> At least until the transition is finished, I prefer that we stick to the
> current scheme of expressing dependencies and maintaining them manually.
> Then we could think about something better. A possibility would be to
> add --disable-java at build time is the detected JDK is gcj; the
> drawback is that we would have useless (build-)dependencies on
> default-{jdk,jre} on the corresponding arches. Any better idea?

Sounds good. We'd have to have a mechanism to dynamically add the
default-jre dependency to a substvar also to avoid maintaining a list by
hand in d/control.

I just did a test build with gcj again on amd64 and got the same exact
error, so it's definitely tied to gcj and not arch-dependent. I've
reported upstream bug #41652 [1] to see if we can get a configure test
of some kind added.

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41652

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mike