Re: 7.3b1 installation

OK, patch applied to test JAVA_HOME and throw appropriate error before
searching for Ant. Autoconf run.

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Jeff Davis wrote:
> 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 "$JAVA_HOME" ; then
> > AC_MSG_ERROR([Set JAVA_HOME variable to build Java components])
> > fi
> >
> > This could be done before the path test in configure.in?
> >
> > Tom.
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 05:52, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > > Oh, I see. I found the problem. My environment variables appearently
> > > weren't set right, so when it tested ant, it got an error with the java
> > > compiler, and exited with nonzero. So, I guess technically ant was
> > > working fine, but the java compiler wasn't. Thanks for the test case,
> > > Tom, and for the advice from all who responded.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jeff Davis
> > >
> > > On Thursday 05 September 2002 01:20 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general(at)empires(dot)org> writes:
> > > > > I have ant 1.5 already.
> > > > >
> > > > > When I run "./configure --with-java" I get:
> > > > > ----
> > > > > checking whether /usr/bin/ant works... no
> > > > > configure: error: ant does not work
> > > > > ----
> > > >
> > > > Hmph. Well, the test that configure is running seems pretty
> > > > straightforward:
> > > >
> > > > cat > conftest.java << EOF
> > > > public class conftest {
> > > > int testmethod(int a, int b) {
> > > > return a + b;
> > > > }
> > > > }
> > > > EOF
> > > >
> > > > cat > conftest.xml << EOF
> > > > <project name="conftest" default="conftest">
> > > > <target name="conftest">
> > > > <javac srcdir="." includes="conftest.java">
> > > > </javac>
> > > > </target>
> > > > </project>
> > > > EOF
> > > >
> > > > pgac_cmd='$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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