Re: 'kitchen sink' downloads (Was: Re: [pgsql-advocacy]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Fri, 6 May 2005, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 5 May 2005, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But we need at least one of them ready for a standalone build
>>>>> first ...
>>>>>
>>>> PL/Java might be ready. Depends on your definition of "standalone
>>>> build" of course. Can you elaborate?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> could I download a tar file to my machine that already has
>>> include/header files install and build it without having to download
>>> the postgresql source tree too?
>>>
>> You need to have a PostgreSQL (binary) installed. There's no need for
>> the source.
>
>
> so,I could download this to my already installed server and build it?
> that is exactly what we are looking for ...

Sure. PL/Java has 2 requirements for building. One is that PostgreSQL is
installed. The other is that you have either GNU GCJ or a JDK installed.

I think it would be possible to completely remove the second requirement
by bundling a Java Native Interface (JNI) header file and a dummy
library but it's not done that way today and I haven't investigated what
license restrictions that might apply. Let me know if you think that's
worth investigating.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren