strange configure error on Linux Mint 18.3 (original) (raw)

Thomas Stüfe thomas.stuefe at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 13:25:24 UTC 2018

Hi Adrian,

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:01 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hi Thomas!

On 04/24/2018 02:50 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:

I got a configure error on a fresh, virgin Linux Mint 18.3 install. I have not yet installed anything on that box (the only thing I installed is autoconf). Have you tried "apt build-dep openjdk-9"? This should install all the necessary build dependencies.

This is cool! I did not know that.

Unfortunately it seems not to work on my box:

thomas at mint18 /shared/projects/openjdk/jdk-jdk/source $ sudo apt-get build-dep openjdk-9 Reading package lists... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

This fails at a point where normally I would get suggestions about which tools to install with apt-get (which, btw, is really nice). config.log contains this: (...) /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory You're missing the Debian package libc6-dev: root at z6:~> dpkg -L libc6-dev |grep crt /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/Mcrt1.o /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/crt1.o /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/crti.o /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/crtn.o /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/gcrt1.o /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/grcrt1.o /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/rcrt1.o root at z6:~> Weirdly enough the compiler is ran once with -qversion, which is an AIX-only option, and once with -V, which is not valid either. This is perfectly normal and the way autoconf works. It tries various compiler options and runs various tests, including test compiles, and checks the result. autoconf cannot know in advance what toolchain and which operating system you are using, so it has to perform these tests. The error messages are normally just redirected to /dev/null and only show in config.log.

Ah, thanks for the explanation!

Has anyone seen this already? (Note that I used Mint18.3 as development machine before and it just worked). Yes, it's perfectly normal when you try to configure OpenJDK without any of its build dependencies installed :).

:) Sure. As I wrote, I think the bug would be that configure does not display nice "you should run apt-get xxxxx" messages like it used to.

PS: If you are using a real Debian instead of Linux Mint, you get a free Multi-Arch environment for free and can easily cross-build OpenJDK for all the architectures found in Debian. Let me know if you want me to write up a small HowTo.

Such a braindump from you would be surely welcome.

..Thomas

Adrian

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