OS check fails on JDK 1.4 & FreeBSD 5.4R

[Scott I. Remick]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 17:23:54 -0700, Vizion wrote:

> OK sorry it did not work can you possibly get some more output -- something 
> like the last 100 lines from the compile routine.  If you can do it from X 
> windows it will be quite easy if you use a window with history. You can then 
> copy the history into a file and use 
> tail 100 [filename] > [filename.tail.txt] 
> and it will put those 100 lines into a file. Paste the contents into your 
> email (doo not attach) so everyone can see and post to the list.
> Lets ee if we can understand what is happening

It's not even getting into the compile though. It's coming from the
Makefile. Here is the relevant code:

check-os:
.if !defined(SKIP_OS_TEST)
        - at mkdir -p ${WRKDIR} ; \
        rm -f ${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} ; \
        gcc ${LINKIT} -o ${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} \
                ${FILESDIR}/${TESTPROG}.c > /dev/null 2>&1
        @if [ ! -f ${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} ] ; \
        then \
        /usr/bin/printf "\n\
You must have a version of FreeBSD later than 4.7-STABLE\n\
February 2003 or 5-CURRENT February 2003 to compile and\n\
use JDK 1.4.2.\n\n" ; \
        exit 1 ; \
        fi
        @${WRKDIR}/${TESTPROG} 2>/dev/null
.endif

>From that it suggests defining SKIP_OS_TEST=1 should bypass it but instead
of cheating I'd rather find out what's wrong with my system to cause the
test to fail.