Re: Bug#244215: gettext: /usr/bin/msginit reports java error (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > I plan to create the Debian gettext
> > package using this call to the configure script:
> >
> > JAVAC=jikes-classpath ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-csharp
> 
> Looks good, yes. (Except for the --disable-csharp: do you have problems
> with pnet?)

I do not remember exactly, maybe it was not mature enough when gettext 0.14.1
was released in February 2004. Currently, pnet exists for 10 of our 11
architectures, which is probably good enough to be considered, but I
would have to conditionalize the dependencies as well. Will think
about it after the java stuff.

> > By "if gcj is present, gettext will install an executable which does
> > not need a jar", do you mean that I should better keep gcj as a
> > build-dependency even if I already have jikes-classpath?
> 
> That depends how you wish to have the runtime dependencies. If you have
> gcj in the PATH during the build, the package will need /usr/lib/libgcj.so.3
> at runtime. If you don't have gcj in the PATH during the build, the package
> will need a JVM at runtime (e.g. gij + /usr/share/java/libgcj-3.4.3.jar).

Oops, my current test packages are created with gcj present, but they
do not depend on libgcj. It seems that I forgot two important things:

* Really put gnu.gettext.GetURL in the package (!).
* Run dpkg-shlibdeps on it.

Perhaps I was reading the PACKAGING file in verbatim mode. Would be
possible to say something about gnu.gettext.GetURL somewhere in the
PACKAGING file?

Thanks a lot.