Bug#432541: eclipse-cdt FTBFS

[Andrew Haley]

Thomas Girard writes:
 > Le mercredi 10 octobre 2007 à 12:36 +0200, Thomas Girard a écrit :
 > > Just another hint on this one: using etch to recompile eclipse-cdt
 > > *does* work. So it's likely a problem in the toolchain. 
 > 
 > 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.

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

Andrew.

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