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