get the sun java binary and add it to our classpath at /etc/profile. but you must disable the gnujava too. On 8/22/06, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- sometimes truth is stranger than fiction -bad religion- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060823/2d990903/attachment-0005.html>