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[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@xxxxxxxxx>]

Package: icedtea-plugin
Version: 1.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

When I try to build icedtea-plugin from the Debian source package using
'debuild -uc -us', I get the following error message:

..
..
..
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking if cp supports --reflink... yes
checking if we can hard link rather than copy from /home/tmac/src/tmp/icedtea-web-1.1... yes
checking whether to build documentation... yes
checking whether to compile ecj natively... no
checking for zip... /usr/bin/zip
checking for a JDK home directory... /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
configure: error: "A JDK home directory could not be found."
make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1348:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

Best regards
Torquil Sørensen

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