Author: rjung Date: Tue Jul 7 07:45:35 2009 New Revision: 791735 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=791735&view=rev Log: Add comment.
Modified: tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt Modified: tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt?rev=791735&r1=791734&r2=791735&view=diff ============================================================================== --- tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt (original) +++ tomcat/current/tc5.5.x/STATUS.txt Tue Jul 7 07:45:35 2009 @@ -139,3 +139,12 @@ We switch between JDK and JRE based on env.variables (e.g. introduced through setenv.[sh|bat]). Why not to add tools.jar always when JDK is used? + rjung: It looks to me like "javac" as an argument was possible before the patch + (even already in tc4.1) but wasn't actually changing anything except for + additional checks. A _RUNJAVAC was set but never used. + After the patch javac is meant to do something, namely adding tools.jar to + the classpath. The shift seems to be in + http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/bin/setclasspath.sh?r1=791331&r2=791330&pathrev=791331 + I don't like adding tools.jar whenever a JDK is used. The JDK contains additional + tools relative to the JRE, so I always prefer people to install the JDK even + when they only use the JDT compiler for Tomcat. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org