Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (pgman@s5-03.ppp.op.net [209.152.195.67]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA54393 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 06:56:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id GAA07966; Tue, 2 May 2000 06:55:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200005021055.GAA07966@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Request for 7.0 JDBC status In-Reply-To: from Joachim Achtzehnter at "May 1, 2000 09:50:22 pm" To: Joachim Achtzehnter Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 06:55:47 -0400 (EDT) CC: PostgreSQL-interfaces , Thomas Lockhart X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL72 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200005/20 > Today, in a message to Thomas Lockhart, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > I am unable to compile the java code with kaffe. Can anyone compile > > > > jdbc under 7.0? > > > > However, it seems kaffe can't compile self-referencing java files. I > > don't know enough about java to know that is a problem or not. > > Have not tried with 7.0, but recent versions of Kaffe were definitely able > to compile the JDBC code that came with 6.5.3, but only after modifying > the version check in the makeVersion.java file in src/interfaces/jdbc (and > perhaps elsewhere where a versioon check occurs). The code checks for the > java version string and rejects everything that doesn't start with either > 1.1 or 1.2. The problem was that Kaffe reports its own version, e.g. 1.02, > rather than the corresponding JDK version. Interesting. It does compile under kaffe 1.05, but the mutually dependent java files cause a compile error. Seems 6.5.3 had the same problem, so I am not sure why it would have worked then. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026