package org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable does not exist

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 11:44 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> Best guess is that some kind of change to javac is triggering
> this failure, but I'm not convinced anything is 'wrong' with javac,
> just a change in the class files created implicitly. Stay tuned...
> 
> In the corba repository I did find this problem:
> 
> diff -r 80a0f46a6203 make/org/omg/CORBA/Makefile
> --- a/make/org/omg/CORBA/Makefile       Thu Jul 17 11:28:32 2008 -0700
> +++ b/make/org/omg/CORBA/Makefile       Fri Aug 01 11:30:41 2008 -0700
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ endif
> 
>   FILES_java = \
>           $(ORG_OMG_SENDINGCONTEXT_java) \
> -        $(ORG_OMG_CORBA_2_3_java) \
> +        $(org_omg_CORBA_2_3_java) \
>           $(ORG_OMG_CORBA_java)
> 
>   #
> 
> I'm testing it now but I still don't understand why it fails sometimes
> and not others. The 2_3 sources are never explicitly listed to be
> compiled so how they got compiled in the past is a puzzle.

In icedtea we have the following patches/icedtea-corba.patch:

--- openjdk.old/corba/make/org/omg/CORBA/Makefile       2007-10-12 03:49:14.000000000 -0400
+++ openjdk/corba/make/org/omg/CORBA/Makefile   2007-11-06 13:57:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@
 FILES_java = \
         $(ORG_OMG_SENDINGCONTEXT_java) \
         $(ORG_OMG_CORBA_2_3_java) \
-        $(ORG_OMG_CORBA_java)
+        $(ORG_OMG_CORBA_java) \
+       $(org_omg_SENDINGCONTEXT_java) \
+        $(org_omg_CORBA_2_3_java) \
+        $(org_omg_CORBA_java)
 
 #

It comes from a similar thread last year about corba failing to compile
in some (bootstrap) situations with alternative compilers gcj/ecj in our
case:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.distro-packaging.devel/414

Cheers,

Mark