RE: Compiling

IMHO make should not be needed at all?

I've hard coded the numbers into the Ant script now and it works fine. Java
users like myself have brains that go "ooh, build.xml, let me run ant" to
compile things.

Why do we need make? (I'm sure there's a reason I can't see)

-mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Peter Eisentraut
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:36 AM
> To: Peter Mount
> Cc: Mike Cannon-Brookes; pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: Compiling
>
>
> Peter Mount writes:
>
> > At 14:21 25/03/01 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >Mike Cannon-Brookes writes:
> > >
> > > > tried to pull down the latest src and compile it but I
> can't. The build
> > > file
> > > > seems to filter properties like MAJORVERISON, MINORVERSION
> etc with ant
> > > > properties that don't exist?
> > >
> > >You aren't running 'ant' directly, are you? Just run 'make'.
> >
> > Unless it's changed build.xml should have defaults for these, but make
> > should then overide them.
>
> The version numbers used to be hardcoded into the source. I thought we
> were supposed to get rid of this. We could provide defaults like '0.0',
> but anything else is going to get us back to were we started.
>
> >
> > Running just ant should run with just the defaults.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
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