It doesn't look like you got the servletapi-4 project (or it is in the wrong place). Try doing: ant download to make certain that you've got all of the jars you need to build Tomcat. If you are behind a firewall, you'll need to set the values of 'proxy.host' and 'proxy.port' in your build.properties file first.
I build Tomcat 4.1.x from source on Solaris pretty regularly, so it definately can be done ;-). "Ziying Sherwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear tomcat Colleagues, > > We have been trying to build tomcat 4.1.27 from source, which we downloaded > from the cvs repository (cvs.apache.org) onto a SPARC computer > running Solaris 2.8, using j2sdk 1.4.0. Unfortunately, the installation > failed, and we are hoping to find helpful insights to get us back on the road. > We have successfully installed the pre-built binary for tomcat, but strongly > prefer to build it from source. We posted several messages to the mailing > list several weeks ago, asking for help, but received no replies. > > Here is a detailed summary of what we did, and the outcome. > FIrst, we installed the following related packages: > > ant 1.5.3-1 > jaf 1.0.2 > Java XML Pack Fall 01 FCS Bundle > javamail 1.3 > jdbc 2.0 > JMX 1.2 > JNDI 1.2.1 > jsse 1.0.2 > jta 1.0.1 > xerces 2.4.0 > > We downloaded the following tomcat modules from the indicated locations: > > commons-beanutils-1.6.1 (http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/beanutils/binaries/commons-beanu tils-1.6.1.tar.gz) > commons-collections-2.1 (http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/collections/binaries/collections -2.1.tar.gz) > commons-digester-1.4.1 (http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/digester/binaries/commons-digest er-1.4.1.tar.gz) > commons-dbcp-1.0 (http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-dbcp/v1.0/ commons-dbcp-1.0.zip) > commons-fileupload-1.0 (http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/commons/fileupload/commons-fileupload-cu rrent.tar.gz) > commons-logging-1.0.2 (http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-logging/v1 .0.2/commons-logging-1.0.2.tar.gz) > commons-modeler-1.0 (http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-modeler/v1 .0/commons-modeler-1.0.tar.gz) > commons-pool-1.0.1 (http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-pool/v1.0. 1/commons-pool-1.0.1.tar.gz) > struts (http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-struts/release/v1.0.2/jakarta-stru ts-1.0.2.tar.gz) > > We also obtained the cvs versions of "jakarta-tomcat-connectors" and > "jakarta-tomcat-jasper" from the jakarta site from which we obtained tomcat. > > We customized the build properties by editing the file build.properties to > reflect the correct paths to all the packages. > > However, when we started to build the package using command "ant dist", we > observed the following error messages: > > build-only: > [javac] Compiling 79 source files to /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jasper/build/shared/classes > [javac] /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper /JspC.java:71: package javax.servlet does not exist > [javac] import javax.servlet.ServletException; > [javac] ^ > [javac] /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper /Options.java:66: package javax.servlet does not exist > [javac] import javax.servlet.ServletConfig; > [javac] ^ > [javac] /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper /Options.java:67: package javax.servlet does not exist > [javac] import javax.servlet.ServletContext; > [javac] ^ > [javac] /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper /servlet/JspCServletContext.java:73: package javax.servlet does not exist > [javac] import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher; > [javac] ^ > [javac] /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper /servlet/JspCServletContext.java:74: package javax.servlet does not exist > [...] > /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper /compiler/JspUtil.java:105: cannot resolve symbol > [javac] symbol : class ExpressionEvaluatorImpl > [javac] location: class org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspUtil > [javac] private static ExpressionEvaluatorImpl expressionEvaluator > [javac] ^ > [javac] /src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/src/share/org/apache/jasper /compiler/JspUtil.java:627: cannot resolve symbol > [javac] symbol : class FunctionMapper > [javac] location: class org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspUtil > [javac] FunctionMapper functionMapper, > [javac] ^ > [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API. > [javac] Note: Recompile with -deprecation for details. > [javac] 100 errors > > BUILD FAILED > file:/src/tomcat_4.1.27/jakarta-tomcat-jasper/jasper2/build.xml:127: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details. > > There is no mention of jasper in the file BUILDING.txt which came with the > source distribution. Is jasper required by the tomcat build? If not, is there > a way to disable it? How can we build jasper from source? > > Thanks in advance for any insights into our problems! > > Best Regards, > > Ziying Sherwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Rick Rodgers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
