From c785e1e3b0143f45079cf9d00b6d7e758ecc242f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Eisentraut Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:44:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update. Things are now build through 'make'. --- src/interfaces/jdbc/README | 25 +++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/interfaces/jdbc/README b/src/interfaces/jdbc/README index e29d08acda..482fa74234 100644 --- a/src/interfaces/jdbc/README +++ b/src/interfaces/jdbc/README @@ -31,18 +31,16 @@ http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html and download the binary. Being pure java it will run on virtually all java platforms. If you have any problems please email the INTERFACES list. -Once you have ANT, cd to the src directory and type "ant". This will compile -the correct driver for your JVM, and build a .jar file (Java ARchive) called -postgresql.jar +Once you have ANT, run the configure script in the top-level directory with +the --with-java option. Then proceed with 'make' and 'make install' as +usual. This will compile the correct driver for your JVM, and build a .jar +file (Java ARchive) called postgresql.jar. The file will be installed in +the directory PREFIX/share/java. That jar file will contain the driver for _your_ version of the JDK. -Note: As of 7.1, you build from pgsql/src and not pgsql/src/interfaces/jdbc. -Well you can, but building from the top will also build some extra utilities -located under /contrib at the same time. Also later on (either 7.1.1 or 7.2) -it's intended to have the main configure script to build the driver -automatically if it finds both a JDK & ANT installed, so this is the first step -towards that. +Note: As of 7.1, you can build from the top-level directory or from +src/interfaces/jdbc. REMEMBER: Once you have compiled the driver, it will work on ALL platforms that support that version of the API. You don't need to build it for each @@ -52,8 +50,8 @@ That means you don't have to compile it on every platform. Believe me, I still hear from people who ask me "I've compiled it ok under Solaris, but it won't compile under Linux" - there's no difference. -I advise you don't try running javac outside of ANT as it builds some classes -on the fly. +Don't try to run javac directly. Don't try to run ant directly. Neither +will work. Possible problems @@ -75,12 +73,11 @@ More details are in the Implementation file src/interfaces/jdbc/Implementation INSTALLING THE DRIVER -To install the driver, the .class files have to be in the classpath. To do -this, copy the postgres.jar file into a directory, and add it to the classpath. +To install the driver, the .class files have to be in the classpath. ie: under LINUX/SOLARIS (the example here is my linux box): - export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/lib/postgresql.jar + export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/pgsql/share/java/postgresql.jar Please don't be tempted to extract the files from the .jar file. There are a lot of files in there, and you may break the Exception handling. -- 2.40.0