Re: 7.3b1 installation

From: Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general(at)empires(dot)org>
To: "philip johnson" <philip(dot)johnson(at)atempo(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 7.3b1 installation
Date: 2002-09-06 12:02:43
Message-ID: 200209060502.43499.list-pgsql-general@empires.org
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You can find them at the address below, although the developers have not made
an announcement yet. This is a secret beta, appearently :) I'm joking, of
course, but I am still confused as to why it hasn't been announced.

ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v7.3beta/

Regards,
Jeff Davis

On Friday 06 September 2002 02:46 am, philip johnson wrote:
> where can I find the 7.3 b1 sources
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]De la part de Thomas O'Dowd
> Envoyé : vendredi 6 septembre 2002 11:29
> À : Jeff Davis
> Cc : Tom Lane; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; Bruce Momjian
> Objet : Re: [GENERAL] 7.3b1 installation
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> I imagine that this was the variable JAVA_HOME? The current
> configuration seems to assume that you have this set. The configure
> script should probably check that this variable to be set to a directory
> and ask the user to set this first instead of failing with the vague
> message that Ant doesn't work.
>
> Probably something like this...
>
> if test ! -d "$JAVA_HOME" ; then
> AC_MSG_ERROR([Set JAVA_HOME variable to build Java components])
> fi
>
> This could be done before the path test in configure.in?
>
> Tom.
>
> On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 05:52, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > Oh, I see. I found the problem. My environment variables appearently
>
> weren't
>
> > set right, so when it tested ant, it got an error with the java compiler,
>
> and
>
> > exited with nonzero. So, I guess technically ant was working fine, but
> > the java compiler wasn't. Thanks for the test case, Tom, and for the
> > advice
>
> from
>
> > all who responded.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jeff Davis
> >
> > On Thursday 05 September 2002 01:20 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general(at)empires(dot)org> writes:
> > > > I have ant 1.5 already.
> > > >
> > > > When I run "./configure --with-java" I get:
> > > > ----
> > > > checking whether /usr/bin/ant works... no
> > > > configure: error: ant does not work
> > > > ----
> > >
> > > Hmph. Well, the test that configure is running seems pretty
> > > straightforward:
> > >
> > > cat > conftest.java << EOF
> > > public class conftest {
> > > int testmethod(int a, int b) {
> > > return a + b;
> > > }
> > > }
> > > EOF
> > >
> > > cat > conftest.xml << EOF
> > > <project name="conftest" default="conftest">
> > > <target name="conftest">
> > > <javac srcdir="." includes="conftest.java">
> > > </javac>
> > > </target>
> > > </project>
> > > EOF
> > >
> > > pgac_cmd='$ANT -buildfile conftest.xml 1>&2'
> > > { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$pgac_cmd\"") >&5
> > > (eval $pgac_cmd) 2>&5
> > > ac_status=$?
> > > echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
> > > (exit $ac_status); }
> > > pgac_save_status=$?
> > > if test $? = 0 && test -f ./conftest.class ; then
> > > pgac_cv_prog_ant_works=yes
> > > else
> > > echo "configure: failed java program was:" >&5
> > > cat conftest.java >&5
> > > echo "configure: failed build file was:" >&5
> > > cat conftest.xml >&5
> > > pgac_cv_prog_ant_works=no
> > > fi
> > >
> > > In English, that's creating conftest.java and conftest.xml and then
> > > running "/usr/bin/ant -buildfile conftest.xml". If ant returns nonzero
> > > exit status or doesn't create conftest.class, then it's considered
> > > broken. What happens if you try the same thing by hand?
> > >
> > > (Alternatively, look into the config.log to see what configure thought
> > > happened.)
> > >
> > > regards, tom lane
> > >
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