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

[David N. Welton]

Wolfgang Baer wrote:

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

I had kaffe.

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

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

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