trying to run Tomcat

Thu Nov 10 15:40:00 GMT 2005

Gary Benson writes:
 > 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.
The alternatives split between javac/java is evil. I've seen it cause
any number of problems with ant.
Andrew.