Hi, in Debian a build time bug was reported here:
https://bugs.debian.org/802356 Since this was not the latest available version 1.8.11 I downloaded the latest one but was running into an error as well: ... init-environment: compile-library: [mkdir] Created dir: /build/svnkit-1.8.11/svnkit/bin [mkdir] Created dir: /build/svnkit-1.8.11/svnkit-cli/bin [mkdir] Created dir: /build/svnkit-1.8.11/svnkit-javahl16/bin [javac] /build/svnkit-1.8.11/debian/build.xml:20: warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds [javac] Compiling 1048 source files to /build/svnkit-1.8.11/svnkit/bin [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.5 [javac] /build/svnkit-1.8.11/svnkit/src/main/java/org/tmatesoft/svn/core/internal/util/SVNPathUtil.java:58: warning: non-varargs call of varargs method with inexact argument type for last parameter; [javac] SVNErrorMessage err = SVNErrorMessage.create(SVNErrorCode.FS_PATH_SYNTAX, "Invalid control character ''{0}'' in path ''{1}''", new String[]{"0x" + SVNFormatUtil.getHexNumberFromByte((byte) ch), path}); [javac] ^ [javac] cast to Object for a varargs call [javac] cast to Object[] for a non-varargs call and to suppress this warning [javac] /build/svnkit-1.8.11/svnkit/src/main/java/org/tmatesoft/svn/core/internal/wc2/ng/SvnDiffGenerator.java:524: error: no suitable method found for generateTextDiff(RandomAccessFile,RandomAccessFile,SvnDiffGenerator.EmptyDetectionOutputStream,QDiffGenerator) [javac] QDiffManager.generateTextDiff(is1, is2, emptyDetectionOutputStream, generator); [javac] ^ [javac] method QDiffManager.generateTextDiff(RandomAccessFile,RandomAccessFile,String,Writer,QDiffGenerator) is not applicable [javac] (actual and formal argument lists differ in length) [javac] method QDiffManager.generateTextDiff(InputStream,InputStream,String,Writer,QDiffGenerator) is not applicable [javac] (actual and formal argument lists differ in length) [javac] /build/svnkit-1.8.11/svnkit/src/main/java/org/tmatesoft/svn/core/wc/admin/SVNAdminClient.java:1622: warning: non-varargs call of varargs method with inexact argument type for last parameter; [javac] SVNErrorMessage err = SVNErrorMessage.create(SVNErrorCode.IO_ERROR, "Session is rooted at ''{0}'' but the repos root is ''{1}''", new SVNURL[] { [javac] ^ [javac] cast to Object for a varargs call [javac] cast to Object[] for a non-varargs call and to suppress this warning [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details. [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. [javac] 1 error [javac] 3 warnings BUILD FAILED /build/svnkit-1.8.11/debian/build.xml:20: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details. ... Unfortunately I'm no Java expert and just wanted to help since svnkit is a predependency of one of the Debian Med packages I'm caring for (prottest). So I need to admit that I can't help more than just reporting this here and hope this might be some valuable information anyway Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.