Hi Adrian, On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:01 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Thomas! > > On 04/24/2018 02:50 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: >> >> I got a configure error on a fresh, virgin Linux Mint 18.3 install. I >> have not yet installed anything on that box (the only thing I >> installed is autoconf). > > > Have you tried "apt build-dep openjdk-9"? This should install all the > necessary build dependencies.
This is cool! I did not know that. Unfortunately it seems not to work on my box: thomas@mint18 /shared/projects/openjdk/jdk-jdk/source $ sudo apt-get build-dep openjdk-9 Reading package lists... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list > >> This fails at a point where normally I would get suggestions about >> which tools to install with apt-get (which, btw, is really nice). >> config.log contains this: >> (...) >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory > > > You're missing the Debian package libc6-dev: > > root@z6:~> dpkg -L libc6-dev |grep crt > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/Mcrt1.o > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gcrt1.o > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/grcrt1.o > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rcrt1.o > root@z6:~> > >> Weirdly enough the compiler is ran once with -qversion, which is an >> AIX-only option, and once with -V, which is not valid either. > > > This is perfectly normal and the way autoconf works. It tries various > compiler options and runs various tests, including test compiles, > and checks the result. autoconf cannot know in advance what toolchain > and which operating system you are using, so it has to perform these > tests. The error messages are normally just redirected to /dev/null > and only show in config.log. Ah, thanks for the explanation! > >> Has anyone seen this already? (Note that I used Mint18.3 as >> development machine before and it just worked). > > > Yes, it's perfectly normal when you try to configure OpenJDK without > any of its build dependencies installed :). > :) Sure. As I wrote, I think the bug would be that configure does not display nice "you should run apt-get xxxxx" messages like it used to. > PS: If you are using a real Debian instead of Linux Mint, you get a > free Multi-Arch environment for free and can easily cross-build > OpenJDK for all the architectures found in Debian. Let me know > if you want me to write up a small HowTo. > Such a braindump from you would be surely welcome. ..Thomas > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
