[Java-gnome-developer] 'mainline' vs 4.0.5 Ubuntu build problem?

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

Somebody who goes by the nick "Lantash" has been popping into
#java-gnome indicating that they are having a problem building
'mainline' but not 4.0.5 as released on Ubuntu. This person has,
unfortunately, never been around when I've been, so I've not been able
to talk to them.

The report is a bit weird, seeing as how nothing Ubuntu related has
changed since then

$ bzr diff -r tag:v4.0.5 configure

which makes me suspect that something in this person's environment or
system has changed that we are now running afoul of. That's bad, of
course, and just the sort of thing that we'd love to see fixed before we
cut another release tarball.

So, to the person whom I look forward to meeting, please either reply to
this or do hang around for more than two minutes and perhaps we can work
out together what is troubling you.

Otherwise, I am ready to release 4.0.6, and have an itchy trigger
finger. I've already moved on to working on post-4.0.6 features, so if
someone cares to report a problem, now would be a good time.

++

I should probably note that most of the Ubuntu people I know have been
using the

$ ./configure jdk=/path/to/whatever/their/java/home/is/

way of specifying where the JVM was. That's largely because the Debian
related detection logic was written before the DLJ licence, and so no
one has suggested what the appropriate actual packaged location of a
[Sun] Java VM would be. If someone could send a bundle with that fixed
I'm sure we would all be very grateful.

AfC
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