Re: kawa build from source fails - revision 8603

[Jamison Hope <jrh@theptrgroup.com>]

On Sep 21, 2015, at 4:34 PM, David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> wrote:

>> "not supported" != "doesn't work"
> 
> I can't engage my free software micro consultancy in using and recommending kawa,
> it has to support, above all, OpenJDK, otherwise any problem will be 'because
> yourjava is not java, and is not supported' ... 

I believe Per did say that OpenJDK 8 is supported, just not 7.  A few messages
ago he suggested:

>>> Or upgrade to OpenJDK 8 - though of course this depends on your OS:


The supported platform set IIUC consists of "versions of Java that Per has
installed on his own machine today", since he has to be able to test it in
order to claim support.

I'm sure if somebody else wants to commit to periodically running tests on
some other version and reporting the results, Per would be willing to add
that platform to the list.

>> So David's problem is not universal with OpenJDK 7.  Perhaps his particular
>> installation of OpenJDK 7 is broken.
> 
> this would be a debian testing packaging/installation problem? I doubt but I can't
> neither do i have to the time to confirm this.

Perhaps?  All I know is that it works fine with OpenJDK 7 under Mint.

I haven't messed with Java-on-Debian in a while, but I seem to recall that
the /etc/alternatives symlinks didn't always get updated the way they should.
Have you made sure that all of the java-related symlinks are pointing at the
same JDK directories/binaries?  A version mismatch might produce the errors
you're seeing.

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Jamison Hope
The PTR Group
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