Re: Wrong link not pointing to the release tarball

Ok, the link has been fixed but as Vladimir pointed out you may need other
pieces to build the jar

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

On 22 January 2016 at 09:30, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> >[1]
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/postgresql-jdbc.git/tree/postgresql-jdbc.spec
>
> >37: Version: 9.4.%{upstreamrel}
>
> It should be %{upstreamver}, shouldn't it?
>
> ># ASL 2.0 applies only to postgresql-jdbc.pom file, the rest is BSD
> >License: BSD and ASL 2.0
>
> That is strange. Which "postgresql-jdbc.pom" is referred to here?
>
> > 57: BuildRequires: ant
> > 58: BuildRequires: ant-junit
>
> I do not think we require ant.
>
> >85: find -name "*.jar" -or -name "*.class" | xargs rm -f
>
> We have *.class files for a good reason: they include gettext translations.
> If you absolutely require to kill that, you need to add "mvn
> -Ptranslate compile" step to perform "gettext" step.
> However, that would void "built from the same git source" statement.
>
> >111: ln -s postgresql-jdbc.jar postgresql-jdbc2.jar
>
> That is somewhat risky, since the new jar is not usable for old JRE.
> In other words, if a software exists that uses Java 5 and jdbc2.jar,
> then newly build jar is not compatible with it.
>
> In order to build jre7, and jre6-compatible jars, separate build steps
> should be used.
> We have https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc-jre7 & jre6 for that.
>
> Vladimir
>