From: pierce at hogranch.com (John R Pierce) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:26:12 -0700 Subject: [Pljava-dev] Building pl/java on OS/X (Mountain Lion) In-Reply-To: <507A2C86.9070404@hogranch.com> References: <86510D0E-3824-40CC-B432-944032169D3E@me.com> <507A07B7.3040909@hogranch.com> <507A0B0A.7030600@hogranch.com> <16853424-3367-4ADB-8D21-073B254759B9@me.com> <507A2C86.9070404@hogranch.com> Message-ID: <507A30D4.9060300@hogranch.com> On 10/13/12 8:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/13/12 7:38 PM, Hal Hildebrand wrote: >> Was also wondering if there's a more verbose mode for postgres >> startup, as what I'm getting is just a non zero exit. Would be nice >> if there was something that gave some idea of what went wrong ;) >> >> Again, thanks for the help though. Appreciated. > > it all should be written to the logfiles oh. when you get to the stage I was at with AIX last week, my best friend was the unix `ldd` command, on OSX I know its something different, but there's an equvalent, you give it an executable or a shared library (.so aka .dynlib), and it tries to find all the dependent libraries and lists them. postgres would complain it couldn't load such and such a .so, so I'd ... ok here's one of my many steps from another thread on this list... > $ psql -c "SELECT sqlj.install_jar('file:///opt/pljava/examples.jar', > 'samples', true);" > INFO: JVMJ9VM011W Unable to load jclscar_23: No such file or directory > ERROR: Failed to create Java VM The error message was misleading, when I did an `ldd` on that libjclscar_32.so, it turned out the /real/ error was... $ ldd /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/libjclscar_23.so /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/libjclscar_23.so needs: ../lib/libc_r.a(shr_64.o) ../lib/libpthread.a(shr_xpg5_64.o) /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/libjsig.so /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/libj9zlib23.so /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/libj9thr23.so Cannot find libjvm.so <<<===== /unix ../lib/libcrypt.a(shr_64.o) ../lib/libc.a(shr_64.o) and that libjvm.so is in /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/j9vm so adding /usr/java5_64/jre/bin/j9vm to the dynamic_library_path seems to have fixed this. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast