Re: 7.3b1 installation - Mailing list pgsql-general

Jeff,

I imagine that this was the variable JAVA_HOME? The current
configuration seems to assume that you have this set. The configure
script should probably check that this variable to be set to a directory
and ask the user to set this first instead of failing with the vague
message that Ant doesn't work.

Probably something like this...

if test ! -d "$JAVA_HOME" ; then
    AC_MSG_ERROR([Set JAVA_HOME variable to build Java components])
fi

This could be done before the path test in configure.in?

Tom.

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 05:52, Jeff Davis wrote:
> Oh, I see. I found the problem. My environment variables appearently weren't
> set right, so when it tested ant, it got an error with the java compiler, and
> exited with nonzero. So, I guess technically ant was working fine, but the
> java compiler wasn't. Thanks for the test case, Tom, and for the advice from
> all who responded.
>
> Regards,
>     Jeff Davis
>
> On Thursday 05 September 2002 01:20 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general@empires.org> writes:
> > > I have ant 1.5 already.
> > >
> > > When I run "./configure --with-java" I get:
> > > ----
> > > checking whether /usr/bin/ant works... no
> > > configure: error: ant does not work
> > > ----
> >
> > Hmph.  Well, the test that configure is running seems pretty
> > straightforward:
> >
> >     cat > conftest.java << EOF
> > public class conftest {
> >     int testmethod(int a, int b) {
> >         return a + b;
> >     }
> > }
> > EOF
> >
> >     cat > conftest.xml << EOF
> > <project name="conftest" default="conftest">
> >  <target name="conftest">
> >   <javac srcdir="." includes="conftest.java">
> >   </javac>
> >  </target>
> > </project>
> > EOF
> >
> >     pgac_cmd='$ANT -buildfile conftest.xml 1>&2'
> >     { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$pgac_cmd\"") >&5
> >   (eval $pgac_cmd) 2>&5
> >   ac_status=$?
> >   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
> >   (exit $ac_status); }
> >     pgac_save_status=$?
> >     if test $? = 0 && test -f ./conftest.class ; then
> >       pgac_cv_prog_ant_works=yes
> >     else
> >       echo "configure: failed java program was:" >&5
> >       cat conftest.java >&5
> >       echo "configure: failed build file was:" >&5
> >       cat conftest.xml >&5
> >       pgac_cv_prog_ant_works=no
> >     fi
> >
> > In English, that's creating conftest.java and conftest.xml and then
> > running "/usr/bin/ant -buildfile conftest.xml".  If ant returns nonzero
> > exit status or doesn't create conftest.class, then it's considered
> > broken.  What happens if you try the same thing by hand?
> >
> > (Alternatively, look into the config.log to see what configure thought
> > happened.)
> >
> >             regards, tom lane
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