trying to run Tomcat

Thu Nov 10 15:05:00 GMT 2005

Anthony Green wrote:
> On Wed, 2005年11月09日 at 10:14 -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
>>Shouldn't the Tomcats use gcj regardless of what alternatives
>>have been configures - at least as long as it depends on a
>>specific alternative?
>> It's not supposed to depend on any specific alternative - although the
> current alternative needs to provide the required bits. AFAIK all 1.4.2
> alternatives do. What alternative did you have selected?

It was a JDK 1.5.x.
I'm a bit surprised. If the tomcat package (say) installed pre-compiled 
classes it would seem like it assumes a specific version of java - and 
perhaps a specific version of gcj.
I'm uncertain as to the philosophy of "alternatives". I can see that it 
is useful to have a way to specify which application is bound to a 
generic command name clear that it should control which JVM an 
application uses? That seems a little scary.
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