On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:03, David Goodenough wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:03, Takashi Okamoto wrote: > > From: David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.1 (unstable) won't install > > Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:23:26 +0000 > > > > > Well the problem is libbcel-java, > > > > I confirmed some of test fail with JDK1.4, it may cause error. > > I'm not sure your problem is fixed or not, but could you try bcel at > > here: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~tora/deb/ > > > > ? > > > > regards, > > > > Takashi Okamoto > > OK, I downloaded the libbcel-java source from the above site, changed > the Build-Depends and Depends lines from 1.3 to 1.4 and it built and > installed and Tomcat seems to run OK. Obviously whatever tests failed > (where are these tests and which one failed?) does not effect tomcat. > > This then brings us to the next question, which is about these > dependancies. Libbcel obviously does not require 1.4, does Tomcat? Tomcat > 4.0.4 does work quite happily on 1.3 (at least 1.3.1). Also given the > current debate about meta packages, is it right to insist on a particular > package (the Sun/Blackdown one) at a particular release (1.3 or 1.4). The > Tomcat package claims to require almost any of the available JREs, but also > needs the 1.4 SDK, which rather instists that you have the 1.4 JRE to go > with it. Can we not use Jikes or GCJ as the SDK? > > David
Well the plot thickens. I now have a tomcat that at least installs. But when I try to run it there are complaints about non-existant errors - at least I know they do not exist in some cases. I tried installing one of my WAR files from the JWSDP system, and in the log there were complaints about "--" in comments in c.tld. As far as I can see (and as far as my the eclipse editor can find) the string -- does not exist in /WEB-INF/c.tld. So I looked a bit further back only to discover that the same complaint is being logged about /WEB-INF/jsp/debug-taglib.tld in the examples application. Again I have looked at this file, and apart from the --> that closes the two comments in this file there is no other occurence of the string -- to be found. David
