William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> Now for my problem. I got most of the way through compile then ran into
> this.
>
> BUILD FAILED
> /usr/portage/tmp/portage/www-servers/tomcat-6.0.2/work/apache-tomcat-6.0.2-
>src/build.xml:388: Warning: Could not find file
> /usr/portage/tmp/portage/www-servers/tomcat-6.0.2/temp/tomcat-native-1.1.7/
>tomcat-native.tar.gz to copy.
>
> I am a bit confused. Now granted we are not running the download targets
> for a variety of reasons. But the native sources seem to be inside of
> Tomcat. Why does it need a tar.gz as well as the sources? Shouldn't it
> build that out of the sources. Or is that being shipped on it's own or
> etc. Excuse me if I am totally in left field on this.
The tar.gz contains the sources. More below.
> My plan for the native stuff on Gentoo is to have a USE flag, more than
> likely jni, control if the native connector is built or not. Maybe
> optional openssl or require that since it seems most of the point to the
> native accelerator.
>
> However I am not getting what the native stuff has to do with building
> the java parts?
AFAICT - nothing. But beware: I'm not a Tomcat developer. Hopefully one of the
Devs chimes in if the following is not correct.
The source archive for the native connector (tomcat-native.tar.gz) is handled
by Tomcat's build process in a similar way as the binary dependencies - for
example the Eclipse compiler, Xerces, the different Jakarta Commons packages
etc. - i. e. it is pulled by the "download" target of the main build.xml and
is saved to a subdir in ${base.path}. For the build of the Tomcat Java
sources the contents of tomcat-native.tar.gz are not needed but the whole
archive is copied to the binary distribution. That way, users of the binary
distribution get the source for the native connector automatically and can
build the connector without the need to fetch the sources separately. This
build is independent of Tomcat itself. What's needed is the APR (and
OpenSSL).
To me it seems reasonable to make the native connector a standalone Gentoo
package on which the Tomcat package depends if it has corresponding USE-flag
("jni" as you say) set.
Regards
mks
BTW: if there's something I can do to help - for example testing - feel free
to contact me.
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