On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Jon Stevens wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:25:33 -0700
> From: Jon Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: tomcat-dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Compile errors
>
> I'm trying to build off the tomcat-4.0 branch and it isn't working...
>
> It seems that for some reason, the copying of the files over to the build
> directory is commented out. Why is that? It says that one cannot
> re-distribute the JSSE stuff, but this is for BUILDING, not distribution.
> The distribution build process should remove those files if they exist...
>
And *that* is why the build system was modified to be the way that it is.
(I haven't voted yet on the future build mechanism, but here's the
background on the current approach.)
Today, if you download (say) the 3.2 source tree and build it, in an
environment that doesn't have JSSE installed, the build script will
silently create a incomplete distribution for you, because it will
silently exclude building SSLServerSocketFactory. Thus, even though you
*think* you just built a complete binary distribution, you didn't -- you
cannot take your distribution and deploy it on a machine that does have
JSSE installed and run SSL connections, without going back and building
from source yet again.
Now multiply this same sort of problem by all the options people might
want to not require in Tomcat 4.
If the build system does not provide at least the option to guarantee a
functionally complete build (i.e. fail if something "optional" is actually
missing), I'm going to be -1 on it. Without this, people building
distributions (including the release manager building the official ones)
has no automated means to validate success.
> -jon
>
Craig
> build-main:
> [javac] Compiling 4 source files to
> /Users/jon/checkout/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/catalina/build/classes
> [javac] Compiling 16 source files to
> /Users/jon/checkout/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/catalina/build/classes
> [javac]
> [javac] Found 14 semantic errors compiling
> "/Users/jon/checkout/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/catalina/src/share/org/apache/catali
> na/net/SSLServerSocketFactory.java":
> [javac]
> [javac] 71. import javax.net.ServerSocketFactory;
> [javac] <--------------------------->
> [javac] *** Error: "javax/net/ServerSocketFactory" is either a misplaced
> package name or a non-existent entity.
> [javac]
> [javac]
> [javac] 72. import javax.net.ssl.SSLServerSocket;
> [javac] <--------------------------->
> [javac] *** Error: "javax/net/ssl/SSLServerSocket" is either a misplaced
> package name or a non-existent entity.
> [javac]
> [javac]
> [javac] 73. import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
> [javac] <--------------------->
> [javac] *** Error: "javax/net/ssl/SSLSocket" is either a misplaced
> package name or a non-existent entity.
>
>
