problem with bindings configure script

John Bankert
Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:07:10 -0000

James,

That worked, thanks, but with a caveat. I don't know if this is a
limitation of autoconf/configure, but jni.h wants to include jni_md.h,
which is located in JNI_INCLUDE_DIR/win32, which is not automatically
searched. I was able to work around this by moving jni_md.h from the win32
sub directory to the same directory as jni.h. No idea who's bug this is, if
it is legitimately a bug, but putting this tidbit out to the list in case
someone other than me runs up against it.

Olly - thanks for the tip to check the config.log - it's what allowed to
figure out and get past the jni_md.h issue.

John

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:25 PM, James Aylett <james-xapian at
tartarus.org>
wrote:

> On 9 Sep 2016, at 19:55, John Bankert <jbankert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to compile xapian core and bindings under cygwin. I
have no
> > issues running the configure script and then compiling core, but
bindings
> > is giving me some issues. I'm running the configure script for
bindings
> as
> > follows:
>
> John ? a couple of things should help get you closer to this.
>
> 1. XAPIAN_CONFIG needs to point to the xapian-config binary you built (and
> installed) from xapian-core-1.4.0
>
> 2. you can point configure at the JNI include directory using
> JNI_INCLUDE_DIR
>
> I'm not sure why you're getting those errors bout confdefs.h,
though, so
> there may be more you have to do to make this work.
>
> J
>
> > in xapian-bindings-1.4.0 directory.
> >
> > ./configure XAPIAN_CONFIG=/home/John/xapian-core-1.4.0 --with-java and
> had
> > two issues.
> >
> > The first I solved by doing make distclean in the xapian-core-1.4.0
> > directory. The second issue produces the following output from the
> > xapian-bindings configure script:
> >
> > checking for java... /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/bin/java
> > checking for javac... /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/bin/javac
> > checking for jar... /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/bin/jar
> > checking for jni.h... cat: confdefs.h: No such file or directory
> > no
> > checking for jni.h in /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/include... cat:
confdefs.h:
> No
> > such
> > file or directory
> > found, but not usable
> > checking for jni.h in /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/include... cat:
confdefs.h:
> No
> > such
> > file or directory
> > found, but not usable
> > checking for jni.h in
> > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Headers... no
> > configure: error: jni.h not found
> >
> > jni.h does in fact exist in /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92. I tried putting a
> > confdefs.h in the xapian-bindings directory but it gets deleted, so
I'm
> > guessing that the configure scripts is trying to build confdefs.h
> >
> > Anyway, I'm at a loss as to what to do to address this. I tried
> downloading
> > xapian 1.2.23 but had the same exact issue and results. Any help
greatly
> > appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > John
>
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