Dear gettext maintainers: I have received this report from the Debian bug system.
A problem like this was already reported by Emmanuel and fixed in git, from where I took the fix for the Debian package, but Java keeps evolving all the time and the fix from March is not enough anymore. Thanks. ----- Forwarded message from Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> ----- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 22:42:23 +0200 From: Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Subject: Bug#910246: gettext: FTBFS with Java 11: unknown target-version 11, please update gt_JAVACOMP macro X-Mailer: reportbug 7.5.0 Package: gettext Version: 0.19.8.1-7 Severity: important Tags: sid buster User: [email protected] Usertags: default-java11 gettext fails to build with Java 11 because the configuration script doesn't recognize the new version. During the build the following warning can be seen: configure: WARNING: unknown target-version 11, please update gt_JAVACOMP macro checking for Java compiler... no The build later fails with: rm -f debian/gettext/usr/share/gettext/libintl.jar mv debian/gettext/usr/share/gettext/gettext.jar debian/gettext/usr/share/java mv: cannot stat 'debian/gettext/usr/share/gettext/gettext.jar': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [debian/rules:139: gettext] Error 1 ----- End forwarded message -----

