I am just doing a build from branch with that option to see if the
plugin works...

Am 30.09.2017 um 14:42 schrieb Don Lewis:
> On 29 Sep, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>> That might explain why I have never seen a working WikiPublisher in the
>> last releases.
>> (Since at least 4.1.2 we build with that option on Windows)
>>
>> The question is: Do we need to build with that option if no one missed
>> the plugin?
> I've never tried to use it, so I don't know if it works or not.
>
> I think I've figured out what is going on.  The reason that tomcat isn't
> getting built when --enable-wiki-publisher is specified is that the
> swext module doesn't list tomcat as a dependency.  That said, I didn't
> find any references to servlet-api.jar in the swext module.  The only
> references that I found in the tree were in the commons-logging makefile
> in the apache-commons module.  As near as I can tell, servlet-api.jar is
> an optional dependency for unit testing.
>
> The FreeBSD port specifies --with-system-apache-commons=yes, so I think
> it should be fine as is.  The ports that bundle apache-commons are
> probably unlikely to specify an external servlet-api.jar, and I think
> they should work OK because apache-commons lists tomcat as a dependency
> and configure adds TOMCAT to $BUILD_TYPE.
>
> I think that the code in configure that handles
> --with-system-servlet-api is misplaced.  I think it should be in the
> section that handles the --without-system-apache-commons case.  If a
> user specifies --with-system-servlet-api, then running tomcat should not
> be necessary when building the bundled apache-commons .jar files.  The
> only reason that I can think of for why it ended up here is that the
> WikiPublisher was the first in-tree consumer of commons-logging.
>
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