On Tuesday 13 November 2007 20:50:30 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Yes. You seem to not have the Java SDK installed. This means that
> > scons will skip building/installing the Java interface. Unfortunately,
> > later on the rules script will try to move the interface to an
> > appropriate location (according to the debian java > policy), but the
> > file won't exist.
> > That is probably why it is failing. You should really install all
> > packages listed in the BuildDepends line of debian/control,
>
> I tried to build it using dpkg-buildpackage. Doesn't that fail if
> the build dependancies are not present?

It depends. dpkg-buildpackage has 2 options, -d and -D, that enable and 
disable that behavior. I don't know which is the default (and the man page 
says nothing).

>
> I did however notice that BuildDepends has
>
>     java-gcj-compat-dev | java2-compiler
>
> I had java-gcj-compat-dev but not java2-compiler so  I installed
> sun-java6-jdk but it failed again in the same way.

Hmm, this is strange. Could you post a complete build log somewhere?



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	Felipe Sateler