Re: libgcj-java-placeholder.sh problem with db4 and gettext packages

[Bruno Haible]

Michael Chastain wrote:
> Sure.  The entire script is appended.

Thanks. So this script even returns with exit code 0 ! Obviously broken.

> Again the symlinks leading up to this are:
>
>   /usr/bin/javac -> /etc/alternatives/javac
>   /etc/alternatives/javac -> /usr/share/java/libgcj-java-placeholder.sh
>
> But I don't think javacomp.m4 has to be aware of the symlinks.
>
> libgcj-java-placeholder.sh is part of the "libgcj" package on this
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu system.  /etc/redhat-release says:
>
>   Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 2)

OK, please report this to RedHat.

  The bug is: The javac placeholder returns with exit code 0 although it
  does nothing.

  Suggested fix: Add an "exit 126" at the end. (Why 126? 126 is the
  customary exit code when a script/program exists but could not be executed
  for some reasons.)

I think you have relations to RedHat, right?, and can report this to
the appropriate mailing list.

> Somebody wrote libgcj-java-placeholder.sh for a reason.

But I won't change gettext just because someone in the world wrote a
buggy placeholder script.

Bruno