[Pljava-dev] Building from source for PG 8.2.4

[Kris Jurka]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Eric Faulhaber wrote:

> Actually, it turns out something was wrong with my build:  pljava.so was
> not linking to libjvm.so.  The problem area for me was with the setup of
> the directory in which we look to link to the JVM (in
> src/C/pljava/Makefile):
>
>                        JVM_LIB := $(firstword $(shell /bin/ls -d \
>                                $(JRE_LIB)/client \
>                                $(JRE_LIB)/server \
>                                $(JRE_LIB)/jrockit \
>                                2> /dev/null))
>
> I temporarily worked around this by hard-coding the target JVM_LIB
> directory in the Makefile, but clearly this is not a permanent
> solution.  So, something appears to be invalid with my build
> environment.  I had JAVA_HOME set to my Java 1.5 directory.  Something
> else I should have set?

Any chance your machine reports something other than i386 or i686 for 
$host_cpu?  If you have something like i586, the makefile in question 
will not provide the appropriate JRE_CPU mapping (circa line 55).  Echoing 
JRE_LIB prior to were you hardcoded things would be informative.

Kris Jurka