Bug#892733: gettext: msgfmt doesn't work with Java 9

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 24/03/2018 à 15:05, Santiago Vila a écrit :

> Is this still an issue with gettext 0.19.8.1-5?

I confirm it works with gettext 0.19.8.1-6. Many thanks for the quick fix.

Emmanuel Bourg

Bug#892733: gettext: msgfmt doesn't work with Java 9

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> Package: gettext
> Version: 0.19.8.1-4
> Severity: normal
> User: debian-j...@lists.debian.org
> 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

Is this still an issue with gettext 0.19.8.1-5?

Thanks.

Bug#892733: gettext: msgfmt doesn't work with Java 9 (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

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 
To: Debian Bug Tracking System 
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: debian-j...@lists.debian.org
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

Bug#892733: gettext: msgfmt doesn't work with Java 9

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Package: gettext
Version: 0.19.8.1-4
Severity: normal
User: debian-j...@lists.debian.org
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