Tomcat 4 circular dependencies

Tomcat 4 circular dependencies

[Gary Benson]

Hi all,

Tomcat 4 is split into two tarballs (core and connectors) but the
split is a little messy resulting in a circular dependency between the
two.  To get a working catalina executable you need to compile the
following bits of the two tarballs in the following order
(non-relevant bits omitted):

 lib-org-apache-tomcat-util       (connectors)
 lib-org-apache-catalina          (core)
 [any connectors you want to use] (connectors)
 catalina executable              (core)

I think that the tidiest way to handle this would be to make one rhug
package with both tarballs in it (perhaps as upstream/{core,conns}, or
maybe upstream and upstream-conn).  Does anybody know a better way
and, if not, does anybody mind if I do this?  Any preference as to the
names of the upstream directories?

Cheers,
Gary

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Re: Tomcat 4 circular dependencies

[Anthony Green]

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 07:11, Gary Benson wrote:
> Tomcat 4 is split into two tarballs (core and connectors) but the
> split is a little messy resulting in a circular dependency between the
> two. 

I didn't think circular dependencies like this were a problem.

In any case, please just do whatever you can get working. :-)   We can
always change it if it makes sense.

Thanks,

AG

Re: Tomcat 4 circular dependencies

[Gary Benson]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:54:26AM -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 07:11, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Tomcat 4 is split into two tarballs (core and connectors) but the
> > split is a little messy resulting in a circular dependency between the
> > two. 
> 
> I didn't think circular dependencies like this were a problem.

They are if you want to make RPMs out of them...

> In any case, please just do whatever you can get working. :-) We can
> always change it if it makes sense.

Ok, cheers.