trying to run Tomcat

Thu Nov 10 15:34:00 GMT 2005

Per Bothner wrote:
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > In the section entitled "Download Tomcat" the two tarballs have
> > the same name. I'm guessing you need to remove the "-compat" from
> > the first.
>> Fixed. (It may take an hour or so for gnu.org to update.) Thanks!

No problem :)
> > Also, in the Fedora-specific section you mention checking the
> > /usr/bin/java alternative. There's also a /usr/bin/javac
> > alternative which is not slaved to /usr/bin/java so it might be
> > worth adding a check for that too.
>> I wasn't sure if tomcat depends on javac, and didn't want to clutter
> the document too much. But I changed that too.

Tomcat uses javac to compile JSPs.
Cheers,
Gary