autoconf/configure does not detect that alsa drivers & cups are missing (Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit)

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-05-13 11:15, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> I've also run across that the autoconf/configure step missed the
> required alsa sound driver headers (libasound-dev package in Ubunutu)
> and cups (libcups2-dev in Ubuntu).
>
> Not sure if this was reported before and apologies for a lack of a
> patch, but I'm not confident enough yet to patch (read 'break')
> MakeFiles and the like :-)

I'm not sure I'm aware of such a problem. However, there were issues 
with the configure wrt alsa and cups, which are fixed in the build-infra 
forest.

Can I ask you to try it in the build-infra forest instead? Clone the 
build-infra repo (hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/build-infra/jdk8) 
and try running configure there instead -- I don't think you need the 
whole forest to just run configure, just the top-level repo. If that 
works, then the problem is solved and on it's way to the formal 
repositories. Otherwise, we need to figure out what's wrong and fix it.

/Magnus