Bug 217661

Summary:	useless java patches in >=sys-libs/db-4.2*
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) <haubi>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	caleb, nichoj, pauldv
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-04-14 14:50:44 UTC

Each >=sys-libs/db-4.2*.ebuild applies two java-related patches, which change some autoconf-input (m4-files), but autoconf is not called anywhere, so they do not have any effect:

  files/*-jni-check-prefix-first.patch
  files/*-listen-to-java-options.patch

In ChangeLog they are first mentioned in 2006:

  25 Jul 2006; Joshua Nichols <nichoj@gentoo.org>
  +files/db-4.2-jni-check-prefix-first.patch,
  +files/db-4.2-listen-to-java-options.patch,
  +files/db-4.3-jni-check-prefix-first.patch, 
  +files/db-4.3-listen-to-java-options.patch, +db-4.2.52_p4-r2.ebuild,
  +db-4.3.29-r2.ebuild:
  Revision bumps to support new Java system.

Although they are not a problem itself (except wasting space and maintenance-time), they confused me somehow while porting to aix (in prefix), where I need to do (sort of) eautoreconf.

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2008-08-16 22:27:02 UTC

All 4.x slots are now fixed to respin the build system properly, to take into account the java patches and the SONAME fix from bug #182972.

It should also be a lot easier for you to handle it in Prefix now (barring one minor annoying issue in 4.2 where you need .jnilib for Darin).