Bug#337270: tomcat5: Suggest java-gcj-compat-dev

[Wolfgang Baer]

David N. Welton wrote:
> Wolfgang Baer wrote:
>>please explain why tomcat5 should suggest java-gcj-compat-dev. It already
>>(conditional) depends on it. The current depends line is enough to get a
>>working tomcat5 IMHO. It either pulls kaffe or java-gcj-compat-dev in.
>>During startup it will pickup the first available on the path.
> 
> 
> Hrm... then something else isn't right, because it was not starting.
> When I installed java-gcj-compat-dev, it started functioning correctly.

So I assume before installing java-gcj-compat-dev you had only kaffe
installed ? Or also a non-free runtime providing java2-runtime ?

Can you say what did not work correctly before ? What is in the
various tomcat logs (/var/log/tomcat5/*) ?

Wolfgang