bug#9306: Java build errors due to trailing colon in CLASSPATH

2011-08-18 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Wednesday 17 August 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Tuesday 16 August 2011, Daniel Richard wrote: > > On Tue, 2011 Aug 16 15:30+0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > > BTW, are you the same "Daniel Richard G." listed in THANKS with the > > > address "dani...@teragram.com"? If yes, should I upd

bug#9306: Java build errors due to trailing colon in CLASSPATH

2011-08-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Tuesday 16 August 2011, Daniel Richard wrote: > On Tue, 2011 Aug 16 15:30+0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > BTW, are you the same "Daniel Richard G." listed in THANKS with the > > address "dani...@teragram.com"? If yes, should I update your > > address there? > > The same! That's my work addr

bug#9306: Java build errors due to trailing colon in CLASSPATH

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Tue, 2011 Aug 16 15:30+0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > Luckily, as far as I know, the above construct should be portable to > all non-museum shells. So I've used it with only a minor modification > (with the only purpose of making the contruct slighlty clearer): > > CLASSPATH=mumblemumble$

bug#9306: Java build errors due to trailing colon in CLASSPATH

2011-08-16 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Daniel, thanks for the report. On Monday 15 August 2011, Daniel Richard wrote: > I am using Automake 1.11.1, and have recently encountered a subtle issue > that causes compilation of some Java programs to fail. > > Here is a typical build failure, produced from a minimal test case I've > assem

bug#9306: Java build errors due to trailing colon in CLASSPATH

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I am using Automake 1.11.1, and have recently encountered a subtle issue that causes compilation of some Java programs to fail. Here is a typical build failure, produced from a minimal test case I've assembled, using OpenJDK on Ubuntu's Natty release: make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/automake-ja