[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#792869: octave: FTBFS on hppa: error: invalid conversion

[Mike Miller]

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On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:12:25 -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> The build fails here:
[…]
> octave-value/ov-java.cc:1292:80: error: invalid conversion from 'const jboolean* {aka const unsigned char*}' to 'jboolean* {aka unsigned char*}' [-fpermissive]
>            jni_env->Set ## JAVA_TYPE_CAP ## ArrayRegion (jarr, 0, v.numel (), jv); \

Ack, thanks for reporting. This looks like a type incompatibility with
the gcj header files. We already know that octave does not work with
gcj.

Can you try rebuilding with hppa added to the NO_JDK_ARCHS variable in
debian/rules? Please follow up if that fixes the build or not.

-- 
mike