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@empires.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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