[Pljava-dev] Build Errors while building PL/Java 1.4.0 on Solaris 10

Hi,

Yes! The server was built elsewhere... Are you saying that PL/Java
should always be built on the same server as the server itself? That is
kind of a severe restriction, esp. when we have pg_config etc - to tell
us all the flags that were used and essentially that should be all that
should be known. Anyhow, I was quite convinced that the way I built it
was fine - was just wondering why I got that error in the first place.

Thanks,
Janardhan

-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Jurka [mailto:books at ejurka.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:30 PM
To: Prabhakara, Janardhan
Cc: pljava-dev at pgfoundry.org
Subject: Re: [Pljava-dev] Build Errors while building PL/Java 1.4.0 on
Solaris 10

Prabhakara_Janardhan at emc.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had the following error while building PL/Java 1.4.0 on Solaris 10:
>>
>> /opt/voyence/db/controldb/pljava-1.4.0/src/C/pljava/type/BigDecimal.c
>> -o type/BigDecimal.o
>> In file included from
>> /opt/voyence/db/controldb/include/postgresql/server/c.h:826,
>> from
>> /opt/voyence/db/controldb/include/postgresql/server/postgres.h:48,
>> from
>>
/opt/voyence/db/controldb/pljava-1.4.0/src/C/pljava/type/BigDecimal.c:
>> 9:
>> /opt/voyence/db/controldb/include/postgresql/server/port.h:377:
error:
>> conflicting types for 'unsetenv'
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:188: error: previous declaration of 'unsetenv'
>> was here
>> /opt/voyence/db/controldb/include/postgresql/server/port.h:377:
error:
>> conflicting types for 'unsetenv'
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h:188: error: previous declaration of 'unsetenv'
>> was here
>> gmake[1]: *** [type/BigDecimal.o] Error 1
>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/opt/voyence/db/controldb/pljava-1.4.0/build/objs'
>> gmake: *** [c_all] Error 2
>>
>>
>> The way I fixed the buiild error was to modify the Makefile under:
>>
>> src/C/pljava/Makefile:
>>
>> -bash-3.00$ diff src/C/pljava/Makefile src/C/pljava/Makefile.orig
>> 23c23
>> < $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -DHAVE_UNSETENV $< -o $@
>> ---
>>> $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $< -o $@
>> Now the discrepency is that
>>
>>
>> /usr/include/stdlib.h has:
>>
>> extern int unsetenv(const char *);
>>
>>
>> And
>>
>> $DBHOME/include/postgresql/server/port.h has:
>>
>> #ifndef HAVE_UNSETENV
>> extern void unsetenv(const char *name);
>> #endif
>>
>>
>> I chose to do the -DHAVE_UNSETENV since the functions only differ in
>> the return type. Did others who built face the same issue? What
>> approach was taken to build PL/Java 1.4.0 on Solaris?
>>
>>

The definition of HAVE_UNSETENV should be in
$DBHOME/include/postgresql/server/pg_config.h and matches up with what
the server compile environment found. This could be different than the
pljava compile environment if the server was built on a different
machine or if additional libraries were installed after the server
build. If you build the server and then immediately build pljava
against that server it should definitely work. Can you clarify how your

server was built?

Kris Jurka