[CentOS] Struggling with javac

Tue Aug 22 22:04:19 UTC 2006
Leonel Nunez <leonel at enelserver.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
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remove  the   libgcj  package  or configure   tomcat to use  the   SUN  JRE

leonel