Re: Cygwin Java (make install) Patch

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Jason Tishler <Jason(dot)Tishler(at)dothill(dot)com>, Pgsql-Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cygwin Java (make install) Patch
Date: 2001-05-24 16:41:06
Message-ID: 200105241641.f4OGf6H04070@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Jason Tishler writes:
>
> > The following patch corrects a make install problem when building
> > under Cygwin. The root cause of this problem is that (Sun) java is a
> > native Win32 app and hence does not understand Cygwin Posix style paths.
> > The solution is to use Cygwin's cygpath utility to convert the Posix style
> > JDBC installation directory path into a Win32 one before invoking ant.
>
> I'd like $(javadir) as the variable name, because non-JDBC things also get
> installed there. Other than that, okay. What kind of program is 'ant' on
> Cygwin? Maybe it could take care of that itself in a future release?

Ant is a java binary similar to make that reads an XML file just like
make reads a Makefile.

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