Re: JDBC driver compilation issues

On 9-Jan-07, at 8:18 AM, Arindam wrote:

> I am pretty new to Java and certainly the first time trying out
> anything with Ant. I work on a proprietary product which distributes
> postgres with it and we are upgrading from PostgreSQL 7.2.1 to 8.1.5.
> What I found out is that the JDBC source has gone out of the main
> distro and is available as a separate source / binary download.
>
> I need to make some customizations to the JDBC driver so I need to
> build it from source. I am using Ant 1.4.1 and the JDBC driver source
> I have download is postgresql-jdbc-8.1-408.src.tar.gz. I extracted
> this into a directory and issued the following command and I get this
> as output:
>
>>>>>>> begin snip
> [amukherj(at)brh30x86 postgresql-jdbc]$ ant
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> BUILD FAILED
>
> /home/amukherj/product/main/src/extra/pgsql/build/postgresql-jdbc/
> build.xml:49:
> Class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Or doesn't support the
> nested "isset" element.
It would appear you need to update ant.
>
> Total time: 0 seconds
> <<<<<< end snip
>
> I don't have much clue into what needs to be fixed but I am getting a
> vague idea that the Ant version I am using might not be be able to
> build this one.
>
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