Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS

[Thomas Girard]

Hello Andrew,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:55:43AM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  > Moving from an etch chroot to sid, I was able to find out that the
>  > following upgrades do not impact eclipse-cdt compilation:
>  >  * libc6 2.6.1-6
>  >  * ant 1.7.0-3
>  >  * eclipse 3.2.2-4
>  > 
>  > This means one of the following packages is causing eclipse-cdt to
>  > FTBFS:
>  >  * ecj
>  >  * gij/gcj
>  > 
>  > Unfortunately, these packages have to be updated at once.
>  > 
>  > Any idea how to find out which one could be the culprit?
> 
> gcj's class loading machanism hasn't changed.  Andrew Overholt
> <overholt at redhat.com> thinks there's probably something wrong with the
> OSGI configuration, and the fact that the first exception also happens
> with Sun's VM must be a clue.

I've tried again with Sun's VM and eclipse 3.2.2-4[1], and it builds
fine.

> Has this version of Eclipse and Eclipse CDT been built successfully on
> Debian/gcj before now, or is it new?

It built successfully in June[2], and started to fail building in July[3].
It still builds fine on etch, with updated libc6, eclipse and ant.

Thanks for looking into this,

Thomas

[1] wich contains the following fix:
    debian/patches/eclipse-ant-manifest.dpatch: Don't remove ant-launcher.jar
    from ant plugin classpath. Needed for Ant 1.7.

[2] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=eclipse-cdt;ver=3.1.2-1;arch=amd64;stamp=1182115944

[3] http://bugs.debian.org/432541