[Xapian-discuss] Re: Java API

[Nathan Trevivian]

Olly Betts <olly <at> survex.com> writes:

> 
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:47:11PM -0500, Jason W. Solinsky wrote:
> > I'd like to use the Xapian Java API Bindings on Fedora Core 5. I've added
> > the xapian repository to yum and installed the xapian-bindings and xapian
> > core packages. Could somebody please point me in the direction I should go
> > from here?
> 
> The Java bindings have not yet been packaged as RPMs (python, php, tcl8,
> and csharp have been so far).
> 
> So if you install xapian-core from a package, you should just be able to
> download the source code for xapian-bindings, make sure you have a
> Java toolchain installed, and then:
> 
> tar zxvf xapian-bindings-0.9.8.tar.gz
> cd xapian-bindings-0.9.8
> ./configure --with-java
> make
> make check
> sudo make install
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 

Hi Olly,
We've been trying to install Xapian over here just to see what it can do.
We've come across several problems, one of which was this one, and tried 
what you suggested below. 
However, we're getting the following error:
checking for java... /usr/bin/java
checking for javac... /usr/bin/javac
checking for jar... no
configure: error: jar not found
I can confirm that the jar utility does exist for that java on that machine. 
So is it talking about a missing 
.jar file? Confusing...

Any help would be much appreciated!
Kind regards,
Nathan