Comment 2 for bug 14936

severity 302995 normal
tags 302995 - sid
thanks

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 02:13 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Blars Blarson wrote:
>
> > gettext failed to build from source on the sparc buildd, however it
> > built fine on my sparc pbuilder. The buildd log lacks some things
> > that are in the pbuilder log "config.status: creating
> > intl-java/Makefile" "config.status: creating intl-csharp/Makefile"
> > and of course the sections that use those makefiles.
> >
> A diff between the build logs for 0.14.2-1 and 0.14.3-1 for sparc
> yields the following meaningful difference:
>
> -checking for jar... jar
> +checking for jar... no
>
> So there was no /usr/bin/jar in the sparc autobuilder after installing
> the fastjar package, but /usr/bin/jar is handled via the alternatives
> mechanism. Seems like a dpkg bug to me.
>
What makes you think this is a dpkg bug?

Please provide a stat of /usr/bin/jar, /etc/alternatives/jar and output
of "update-alternatives --display jar".

Scott
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