Re: tomcat5 and related dependent ports on Intel

Hi Tabitha,

As the maintainer of most of those ports, I'd love to try to help  
you. I apologize if I've missed some previous question from you about  
those ports.

A couple of comments:

On Sep 4, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> Has anyone had any luck installing the tomcat5 port (and its  
> dependencies
> such as kaffe, junit, et al) on a Mac running Intel and 10.4.x ?

Yes, I have built these.

> I have had an awful time trying to install the tomcat5 "family" of  
> ports
> starting with kaffe on Intel. Previously I had no problem  
> installing these
> port on the PPC Macs but now starting with Darwin Ports 1.3.2 and
> XCode 2.4(as recommended by several people on the mailing list who
> scolded me for
> using anything less than 2.4), I can not even get the kaffe port to  
> install
> successfully on PPC.

Well, kaffe is a dependency for bin:java, which should be fulfilled  
by the built-in java: there should be no reason that kaffe needs to  
be built on Mac OS X.

> If there's not much interest and if maintenance is too much of a  
> hassle,
> perhaps MacPorts should consider dropping the tomcat5 / java  
> related ports
> from the entire repertoire of ports?

I'd love to hear about detailed reports of any specific problems you  
have.

James.