Re: BUG #1172: JDBC driver fails to compile

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Werner Bohl wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:09, Kris Jurka wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, PostgreSQL Bugs List wrote:
> >
> > > Postgresql version: 7.4.3
> > > Java: j2sdk_1.4.2_04
> > > ant: 1.5.2-26
> > >
> > > JDBC driver fails to compile with error:
> > >
> > > /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4.3/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc3/Jd
> > > `org.postgresql.jdbc2.optional.PoolingDataSource.getDataSource(java.lang.St
> > > [javac] bc3PoolingDataSource.java:29: error: Method ring)' was defined
> > > with return type `org.postgresql.jdbc2.optional.PoolingDataSource' in class
> > > `org.postgresql.jdbc2.optional.PoolingDataSource'.
> > > [javac] static Jdbc3PoolingDataSource getDataSource(String name)
> > >
> >
> > This error message is pretty mangled, but I suspect you might have another
> > version of the driver somewhere on the classpath. The driver will fail
> > to compile in this situation as it gets confused with the
> > different versions of the same class.
> >
> No, my classpath is empty! I managed to compile fixing the following:
> on class Jdbc3PoolingDataSource lines 29 & 31 changed
> Jdbc3PoolingDataSource for PoolingDataSource.
>
> On class Jdbc3ObjectFactory line 46 added a cast to
> Jdbc3PoolingDataSource.
>

Taking a closer look the driver has some rather odd code there, but I get
no failure here. Is there any change you aren't really using sun's jdk to
compile this and one of the free compilers out there?

Kris Jurka