[Xapian-discuss] Re: Java API

[Nathaniel Trevivian]

Thanks Olly, that seemed to solve all our problems!
It was confusing I guess because we were expecting JAR to be a  
utility built into java. Normally we would jar things using java - 
jar ...etc
Where did you learn all this!?
;)
N

On 9 Nov 2006, at 16:14, Olly Betts wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:25:06PM +0000, Nathan Trevivian wrote:
>> 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 a command called "jar".
>
> It looks for it on your PATH - what does this report?
>
> which jar
>
> If that doesn't find it, it presumably means it's installed somewhere
> outside your PATH.  I'm suprised it would be somewhere different to  
> java
> and javac, but if you need to you can just tell configure where it is
> explicitly.  For example, if it's /opt/bin/jar use:
>
> ./configure --with-java JAR=/opt/bin/jar
>
> You can direct configure other commands in this way too if necessary.
> For details see:
>
> ./configure --help
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly

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