Mac OSX build requirements

[Craig Russell <Cr...@Sun.COM>]

Hi,

It took me just a bit of scratching to find the secret of building  
Derby in MacOS X. The BUILDING.txt file has nothing about it, and it  
took me a bit of work to find the post  
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=derby- 
user@db.apache.org&msgNo=31 that explains enough of what I needed to  
do. It was clear enough that I could run derby on MacOS X but it wasn't  
obvious that I could develop on it.

I'd like to see the MacOS X information right up front, because I spent  
a bit of time trying to figure out how to get hold of a JDK 1.3.1  
environment, which isn't even necessary for MacOS X because when you  
install 1.4, you also get the 1.3.1 environment for Derby.

Is there already a place for this kind of operating-system-dependent  
information? If not, would BUILDING.txt be a good place for it?

I would be happy to write up a patch for BUILDING.txt or wherever it  
should be.

Thanks,

Craig

Craig Russell
Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@sun.com
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!

Re: Mac OSX build requirements

[Andrew McIntyre <mc...@gmail.com>]

On May 17, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Craig Russell wrote:

> I would be happy to write up a patch for BUILDING.txt or wherever it 
> should be.

I just happen to be looking at some build/documentation related items 
right now. I think it would be fine to put this information into 
BUILDING, since it is key to building Derby on Mac OS X. If you produce 
a patch, I'll review and commit it.

Once you have it built, you'll probably want to look over DERBY-1 if 
you haven't already:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1

andrew