Re: Absolutely clueless newbie and installation of Resin-3.0.19

On Jul 8, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Matej Cepl wrote:

>
> Doesn't help. However, while trying to install resin (from
> http://www.caucho.com/download/resin-3.0.19-src.tar.gz)

Install from the binary.

The source release is only for people who know what they're doing and  
want to look at the source.

-- Scott

> on my
> own computer to check out how is it supposed to work, I found
> couple of rather disturbing things:
>
> 1) According to the
> http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/install/install.xtp compilation
> should be just ./configure;make;sudo -u root make install. Well,
> it is not so:
> 	a) first of all ./configure doesn't have execute bit set on, so
> I had to run chmod +x ./configure first
> 	b) when running ./configure --prefix=/usr/local (why in the
> world, it is not default, as virtually every other configure
> script I've ever met? but that's not that important) everything
> works fine, but this is relevant part of the generated Makefile:
>
> 	all     :
>         (cd modules/c/src; $(MAKE))
>
> That's it. Can anybody explain me how are java source code files
> supposed to compile?
> 	c) obviously sudo -u root make install fails:
>
> cp: cannot stat `lib/*.jar': neither file nor directory
>
> Well, when no java source was compiled, there are obviously
> no .jars available.
>
> What I am supposed to do?
>
> Matej
>
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