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

[Martijn Verburg]

On 14 May 2012 11:15, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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

It appears to pick both of those up now - thanks!

Martijn