Bug#375883: tomcat5: fails to build from source

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

Package: tomcat5
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS

tomcat5 fails to build from source on i386 in a clean chroot:

make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tomcat5-5.0.30'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `update-config'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tomcat5-5.0.30'
cd . && /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java -classpath /usr/share/ant/lib/ant.jar:/usr/share/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/share/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/lib/kaffe/lib/tools.jar  -Dant.home=/usr/share/ant org.apache.tools.ant.Main -Dcompile.debug=true -Dcompile.optimize=true    -propertyfile /tmp/buildd/tomcat5-5.0.30/debian/ant.properties build
Internal error: caught an unexpected exception.
Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation.
java/lang/NullPointerException
   at gnu.classpath.SystemProperties.getProperty (SystemProperties.java:123)
   at java.lang.VMClassLoader.<clinit> (VMClassLoader.java:84)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader$StaticData.<clinit> (ClassLoader.java:155)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader (ClassLoader.java:797)
   at gnu.classpath.VMSystemProperties.postInit (VMSystemProperties.java:native)
   at gnu.classpath.SystemProperties.<clinit> (SystemProperties.java:114)
   at java.lang.Runtime.<init> (Runtime.java:100)
   at java.lang.Runtime.<clinit> (Runtime.java:88)
   at java.lang.System.loadLibrary (System.java:560)
   at gnu.java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl.<clinit> (FileChannelImpl.java:86)
   at java.io.FileDescriptor.<clinit> (FileDescriptor.java:64)
   at java.lang.VMSystem.makeStandardInputStream (VMSystem.java:191)
   at java.lang.System.<clinit> (System.java:74)
   at java.lang.Object.hashCode (Object.java:174)
   at java.util.Hashtable.hash (Hashtable.java:816)
   at java.util.Hashtable.put (Hashtable.java:426)
   at java.security.Permissions.add (Permissions.java:112)
/bin/sh: line 1: 24680 Aborted                 /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java -classpath /usr/share/ant/lib/ant.jar:/usr/share/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/share/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/lib/kaffe/lib/tools.jar -Dant.home=/usr/share/ant org.apache.tools.ant.Main -Dcompile.debug=true -Dcompile.optimize=true -propertyfile /tmp/buildd/tomcat5-5.0.30/debian/ant.properties build
make: *** [debian/stamp-ant-build] Error 134


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16trofastxen
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)