[CentOS] Struggling with javac

Wed Aug 23 01:41:39 UTC 2006
John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com>

John Hinton wrote:
> Seán O Sullivan wrote:
>> John Hinton wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
I'm making some progress (digress?). Doing the same thing on a CentOS 4 
server, everything works as expected. This is my bet. I think the deal 
with Java being removed from RHEL during the version 3 days left some 
breakage. I'm guessing but I bet this came about as a result of the 
Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft for developing it own non-compatible 
jvm. It seemed to happen at about the same time. I notice you do have to 
go through the licensing screens to install jdk.. which I bet is why it 
can't be included in RHEL?

I also notice that Sun has announced a plan to make Java SE available as 
open-source code.. so maybe we'll have the ability to again do an 
install via the OS and it will be back into the hands of the upstream 
provider with regards initial installation, configuration and updating. 
I guess we'll see as the dust settles in Sun's final decisions.

Looking at removing the libgcj package brought up lots of dependency 
issues which might take a bit of time to sort through and maybe break 
something I don't know about.. so.. I'm jumping ship! Instead of 
pursuing this install on CentOS 3, I'm heading on over to one of my v4 
boxes. I hope I've poked, prodded, drops files all over the place, 
rewritten config after config... maybe I'll actually get a clean first 
time install and have this up and running tonight <fingers crossed>.

Thanks for the input.

John Hinton