Re: Request for 7.0 JDBC status

> 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.

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