Re: 7.3b1 installation - Mailing list pgsql-general

Yes, JAVA_HOME is correct. A test as you mention would have made it easier for
me to determine the problem than "ant doesn't work". A minor problem, but
certainly worth testing for.

Thanks!

Regards,
    Jeff Davis

On Friday 06 September 2002 02:29 am, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> 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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