Bug 597270 – app-text/jabref-bin-3.6 fails to emerge

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jonas Stein 2016-10-16 12:14:43 UTC]

Created attachment 450386 [details]
build.log

emerge =app-text/jabref-bin-3.6 
fails here and I do not understand the error message (attached). 

$ java -jar JabRef_3.6.jar -> works fine and starts with oracle java 1.8

Some ideas about the problem from IRC #gentoo-java besides the suggestion to report a bug for this:

the problem is that it only depends on virtual/jre (since it's a binary package) but JREs don't include the jar tool
jar isn't an independent package, it is included in JDKs
but jars are really just zips with a different name

[Comment 1 Nicolas Bock 2016-10-16 17:01:43 UTC]

I can't reproduce this problem. Can you provide some more details as to what you had installed prior to jabref-bin?

[Comment 2 James Le Cuirot 2016-10-16 17:36:49 UTC]

Nicolas, he has only a JRE installed, not a JDK. The jar tool is not included with JREs. You should depend on app-arch/unzip and use unzip instead.

[Comment 3 Nicolas Bock 2016-10-17 16:36:53 UTC]

(In reply to James Le Cuirot from comment #2)
> Nicolas, he has only a JRE installed, not a JDK. The jar tool is not
> included with JREs. You should depend on app-arch/unzip and use unzip
> instead.

Thanks James for the comment. I fixed the ebuild.

[Comment 4 Nicolas Bock 2016-10-17 16:37:21 UTC]

Jonas, could you try it again?

[Comment 5 Jonas Stein 2016-10-17 19:21:16 UTC]

Nicolas, thank you very much for your quick fix. It works fine here.