[Xapian-discuss] Re: Java API

James Aylett james-xapian at tartarus.org
Thu Nov 9 16:26:21 GMT 2006


On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:25:06PM +0000, Nathan Trevivian wrote:

> 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...

It's talking about the jar utility - can you do:

$ ls -l `which jar`

(assuming you have which installed helpfully, which you probably do)?

J

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