Bug#627110: ant: FTBFS on s390

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:
> Package: ant
> Version: 1.8.2-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: help
> Justification: FTBFS
>
> Hey
>
> As the title suggests, ant does not do too well on s390[1].  I had ant
> given back a couple of days and it gave exactly the same error, so I
> doubt it is a temporary issue.  By the looks of it, my best guess is
> that openjdk-6 chokes here.
>
> Patch, fix or just a workaround appreciated.

Just a few pointers.

1. Looking at the log it seems javadoc generation is choking. Ant's
javadoc task always forks the process. So it is possible that the
buildd doesn't have enough memory for allocation and hence the
failure.
2. As a workaround you can disable the javadoc building on s390. This
will need some 'trial and error' process and you will need access to
the s390 machine. I had implemented similar change in java-gnome
packaging. You can take a look at it.

Cheers,
Onkar
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