[CentOS] Building tomcat6, SRPM jakarta-commons-dbcp-1.2.1-7jpp.ep1.2.ep5.el5.src.rpm fails to build

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25, RedShift<redshift at pandora.be> wrote:
> I have found a few references on the errors with some conclusive information on the tomcat mailinglist [4], stating that dbcp won't build with a java 6 compiler.
>
> So at this point my mind is blank, "now what?".

Well, you can try to install JDK 1.5.0 from Sun and see if it builds then.

For instructions:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS#head-3f98853bcb757ab29ddf3aa8e2b5c939f59445d6

I would also recommend that you use the JPackage (www.jpackage.org)
repositories for Java software, they package Java software in RPMs for
and IMO it works very well.

HTH,
Filipe