i would just like to point out that setting up an environment to build the
java portion of tomcat-4.0 from CVS is WAY to hard. you have to know way to
much about where things should go and such.
for example, the documentation states that you should point to your JSSE
installation directory. given that JSSE instructs you to put things into
$JAVA_HOME/lib/ext, the tomcat build system doesn't assume that, it assumes
is to be the place where you downloaded and un-tar'ed JSSE. i think that the
documentation should be more clear and also the build system should not
require you to set a bunch of environment variables if you have a well
defined directory structure...keep reading...
what i propose is to ask people to either setup their directory structure in
a certain way or to set environment variables.
for example:
/stuff
/jakarta-tomcat-4.0
/jakarta-ant
/jakarta-servletapi
/jsse*
/jmx*
/jndi*
...
Then, Tomcat's build files will first try to find relative paths to the
other directories and if it can't find them, it will then look for env
variables. I think that this is a perfectly acceptable build system for now.
one thing i'm working on right now is adding the above functionality and
won't check in my changes until after m5.
thanks,
-jon
