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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25.02.2016 16:11, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-02-25 11:58, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Package: src:openjdk-8
> > Version:
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: sid stretch moreinfo
> >
> > According to the build logs, openjdk-8 fails to configure on mips and mips64el:
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openjdk-8
> >
> > I'm thinking to just disable openjdk builds on the mips* platforms. The
> > feedback from the porters is rare, and non-migration to testing holds back
> > security updates.
>
> If you want feedback, it might be a good idea to start for help. I am
> not really happy with all the decision that have been taken with openjdk
> on mips.
>
> For example, you asked us to check why openjdk-8 didn't build with
> gcc-5. James Cowgill provided a patch [1] and a few days later I
> confirmed that it was working fine [2]. Still the changelog from
> version 8u72-b05-6 mentions an "untested patch" [3].

sorry, never saw your reply.

> Later version
> 8u72-b15-1 simply removed the patch, which caused the package to
> FTBFS on mips* [4]. Instead of asking for help, where we would have pointed
> you to the issue, you decided to simply drop jamvm on mips. This is
> clearly the wrong way to fix the issue.

well, then it's wrong as well to not open an issue with the patch, so that it 
doesn'get lost.

> > [...]
> > checking for nawk... /usr/bin/nawk
> > checking for cygpath... no
> > checking for readlink... /bin/readlink
> > checking for df... /bin/df
> > checking for SetFile... no
> > checking build system type... ../src/common/autoconf/build-aux/config.guess:
> > unable to guess system type
>
> The problem can simply be explained by the diff between the two last
> versions:
>
> diff -u openjdk-8-8u72-b15/debian/control openjdk-8-8u72-b15/debian/control
> --- openjdk-8-8u72-b15/debian/control
> +++ openjdk-8-8u72-b15/debian/control
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>   Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), quilt, m4, lsb-release, zip, unzip,
>     sharutils, gawk, cpio, pkg-config, procps, time, wdiff, fastjar (>= 2:0.96-0ubuntu2),
>     autoconf, automake, autotools-dev, ant, ant-optional,  libtool,
> -  g++-5, g++-4.9 [mips mipsel mips64 mips64el],
> +  g++-5,
>     openjdk-8-jdk | openjdk-7-jdk,
>     libxtst-dev, libxi-dev, libxt-dev, libxaw7-dev, libxrender-dev, libcups2-dev, libasound2-dev, liblcms2-dev, libfreetype6-dev (>= 2.2.1), libgtk2.0-dev, libxinerama-dev, libkrb5-dev, xsltproc, libpcsclite-dev,
>     libffi-dev,
>
> You have dropped the build-depends on g++-4.9, still debian/rules but it
> is still the version forced in debian/rules.

yes, sorry about that. however the versions before didn't build either.

> Removing the version force in debian/rules fixes the issue.

does it even build with this? does it run the testsuite when I enable it?

mips* clearly is the openjdk platform which breaks the most often for release 
architectures.  That didn't change for the past years.  You know that as well.

Matthias