IcedTea 1.11 on Fedora 10 - Missing java.util.Scanner

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/8/13 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
> I still have the Fedora 10 install (I run the installs in VMWare).  The
> error happened after the build runs for a while and fails with a class not
> found exception - No java.util.Scanner.  I can send the full error later.
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Andrew John Hughes
> <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/8/13 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
>> > I installed a fresh version of Fedora 11 and all is working.  I guess
>> > Fedora
>> > 10 is missing java.util.Scanner from the Java installation.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It looks like the Makefile logic that adds icedtea-euctw.patch is not
>> >> working as expected.  Since this was an IcedTea 6 patch, was the logic
>> >> implemented correctly in IcedTea 7?
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> I am trying to build IcedTea 1.11 on Fedora 10 with all the updates.
>> >>> I
>> >>> followed the instructions for building with ecj.  autoreconf;
>> >>> ./configure .
>> >>> The configure scripts throws an exception that java.util.Scanner is
>> >>> missing.  I think I have all the prerequisites installed.  What might
>> >>> be
>> >>> missing?
>> >>>
>> >>> Michael
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>> The build should still go fine without java.util.Scanner; that check
>> just detects whether patches are needed to work round its absence in
>> gcj 4.3.  IcedTea7 builds on boxes using gcj 4.3 (and certainly on F10
>> as Lillian has produced RPMs for it) so I'm not sure why you had
>> issues and unfortunately you didn't provide enough debug info. to
>> diagnose this; we need to know the exact error, what is being detected
>> on your system, etc.
>> --
>> Andrew :-)
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>

Ok, that's interesting.  That means there's a case that's not being patched.
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