On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Paul Mattal <p...@mattal.com> wrote: > > So this is a weird one, but I think I just made some headway. > > Apparently, this seems to be related to the ACTUAL CPU of the box I build > on. When building on an i686 Arch box running on an AMD 64 CPU, the build > generates the broken binaries! When I build on an Intel CPU, it works fine. > > So it would appear this is at least in part Tomcat's build process's fault > for not building the right thing based on the uname -m but rather looking > directly at the processor. > > Yuck. Perhaps I will at least add a note to the PKGBUILD suggesting this > issue, so that the next poor person who decides to update tomcat doesn't > trip over this same thing. > > Thanks, all, for working this through with me.
Why not just stop building tomcat from source? What advantage does it give over just using the upstream binary distro?
