I have as of December started to take over package/ebuild maintenance of Tomcat on Gentoo Linux. From interacting on irc, I get that many don't like us compiling. Such is such, and not looking to debate or discuss that.
The issue is this, a few users, 2 so far, with custom apps using log4j are having problems. Specifically java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Priority Now we are compiling Tomcat against log4j 1.2.13 instead of 1.2.12, but I doubt that is the problem. Currently at the moment we are still mainly compiling Tomcat with 1.4 jdk, but should be using 1.5 soon. I believe there might be a conflict with JULI or etc? The initial reporter, when we would put log4j in common/lib or shared/lib would crash Tomcat. The other get's the above CNFE. Now I have come across a few things via google where people with the official binary Tomcat, are having similar issues. So I am not sure if this is a result of us compiling Tomcat. Or issues with their custom apps and implementation of log4j. When they can run their apps via the binary just fine, it makes me believe it's something related to us compiling Tomcat. Any input is greatly appreciated. Pretty sure this is more developer related than user, since I am curious as to the inner workings, deps etc of Tomcat's new logging JULI. Still pretty confused with regard to Tomcat's Core Optional Libraries. Of which log4j is one. Not sure if log4j is required or not to make Tomcat whole during compile or what. For now it's all present, and if it can be left out. Might be optional for users at compile time. But I will cross that bridge once I resolve current issues. Thanks -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
