Re: Overhaul of Java auto-detection

[Philip Nienhuis]

Rik wrote:
> On 12/10/2012 04:34 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:26:48 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Philip Nienhuis<address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Overhaul of Java auto-detection
> > Message-ID:<address@hidden>
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> >
> > Rik-4 wrote
> > > > 12/10/12
> > > >
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > I just pushed a changeset which significantly changes (improves?) the way
> > > > Java is detected if JAVA_HOME has not been set
> > > > (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/56239ff815a3).  There are
> > > > likely to be kinks which need working out and I particularly need feedback
> > > > from Mac OS X systems.  Despite all those caveats, I think this is a much
> > > > better strategy for detection than having a laundry list of directories to
> > > > check for each operating system and distribution.
> > Sorry to say, but now Java isn't properly picked up any more on my Linux dev
> > box (Mageia-2).
> > All configure does now is echo the entered value for JAVA_HOME; the include
> > dirs etc are blank.
> >
> > W/o JAVA_HOME it doesn't work better; after an hg update (pulling your very
> > changeset), configure ran again but after a while the build broke with
> > complaints about missing jni.h
> Philip,
>
> Since configure.ac was changed you need to run bootstrap in order to
> regenerate the configure script before running it.

Ah that may explain a thing or two. Thanks.
(Checking out again, will let you know later tonight how it fared.)

> 'hg pull; hg update; bootstrap; configure; make'
>
> If you can, run './configure --your-options | tee confdbg.log' and I can
> take a look at what configure discovered.

Shouldn't that be in configure.log as well? (I know that file can get a 
bit large) or does this only echo the regular output (i.e., not the errors)?

Philip