[CentOS] Struggling with javac

Tue Aug 22 21:31:42 UTC 2006
Mark Schoonover <schoon at amgt.com>

John Hinton wrote:
> I've installed jdk-1_5_0_08-linux-i586.rpm and Tomcat.
> 
> Working through some initial test install programs, I am finding that
> I can't seem to compile .java files into classes.
> 
> For instance...
> 
> javac -classpath /usr/local/tomcat/common/lib/servlet.jar
> HelloWorld.java 
> 
> as instructed fails with a
> 
> gij: unrecognized option -- `-classpath'
> Try `gij --help' for more information.
> 
> So then I notice there is no servlet.jar file, but instead a
> servlet-api.jar.. I change the command and it fails with the same
> problem. Trying the command without the -class and without the path
> fails with path errors. So it's sort of like this -classpath switch is
> either pathed wrong somewhere or is deprecated?
> 
> This is on a CentOS 3 server. Anybody run into this? Do you have a
> solution? 
> 
> Thanks,
> John Hinton


John,

	As a guess, how about --classpath?? You're showing -classpath....
I'm just guessing, don't program in Java...

Mark