Dear Gettext maintainers: I've received the following report from the Debian BTS.
This is now serious for us because it makes a lot of packages to fail to build from source. [ Question for Emmanuel: Whenever a new GCC breaks a lot of packages, individual packages are still allowed to build-depend: old-gcc as a last resort. Would this be a possibility here? ] Thanks. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:04:37 +0100 Subject: gettext: msgfmt doesn't work with Java 9 Package: gettext Version: 0.19.8.1-4 Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: default-java9 Hi, msgfmt doesn't work with Java 9, when invoked with the --java2 parameter it fails to detect the JDK and returns this error message: msgfmt: Java compiler not found, try installing gcj or set $JAVAC msgfmt: compilation of Java class failed, please try --verbose or set $JAVAC This issue breaks the build of at least two packages (plm and salliere). It's possible to reproduce this issue by installing default-jdk/0.59+exp2 from experimental. Emmanuel Bourg
