Re: postgres 7.3 won't compile with jdbc

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> Joseph Shraibman wrote:> Fernando Nasser wrote:
>
>>
>>> Joseph,
>>>
>>> Make sure the previous version of the driver is nowhere in your
>>> CLASSPATH.  If you have added it to your jre/lib/ext directory,
>>> remove it from there.
>>>
>>> Then retry your compilation.  Let us know if it worked.
>>>
>> Yup, that fixed it.
>
>
> Glad to hear that.  I sort of expected it would.
>
>
>> Can't the makefile check for this?
>>
>
> It is annoying isn't it?  I lost hours because of this.
>
>
> It would have to be something with access to the CLASSPATH to check if
> you have the driver there already and ask you to remove it before
> continuing.
>
> If Barry or Dave don't do anything about it (they are the JDBC
> 'committers'), I will try and see what can be done with "ant".

It would be pretty easy to write a java program to do it, but I'm not sure how to
distribute it. Should we echo the source to a text file like configure does? Can we just
include the test.java in the source?