Created attachment 379466 [details] The output of "emerge --info" When emerging sci-mathematics/scilab-5.5.0::science on my ~amd64 system with the system java vm oracle-jdk-bin-1.8, I am getting the error: BUILD FAILED /tmp/portage/sci-mathematics/scilab-5.5.0/work/scilab-5.5.0/modules/prebuildjava/build.xml:83: The following error occurred while executing this line: /tmp/portage/sci-mathematics/scilab-5.5.0/work/scilab-5.5.0/build.incl.xml:88: JDK 1.6 or 1.7 required. Found 1.8
Created attachment 379478 [details, diff] scilab-5.5.0-jdk18.patch A patch to enable compilation with jdk-1.8.
Created attachment 379480 [details, diff] scilab-5.5.0.ebuild.patch The modification to the ebuild so that it applies the jdk18 patch.
Hi José, thanks for the patch. I have backported a patch from upstream which is slightly more complete and pushed it the science overlay. Let me know if you encounter any issue.