Advice for building tomcat8 on jessie?

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:40:40AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> > Le 30/06/2018 à 20:09, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit :
> > 
> > > I would very much appreciate your guidance on this so that I can get
> > > tomcat8 in jessie updated.
> > 
> > Hi Roberto,
> > 
> > Thank a lot for helping with the Tomcat maintenance. The error probably
> > comes from an expired test certificate or a change in OpenSSL. Try
> > building the package locally without pbuilder and inspect the test logs
> > generated in the output directory. You should get a good indication of
> > the cause of this error. Note that you can build the package and run
> > only one test by adding -Dtest.name=**/TestWebSocketFrameClientSSL*
> > after the "ant test" invocation in debian/rules. That should speed up
> > your investigations.
> > 
> Hi Emmanuel,
> 
> The SSL certificate expiration was exactly the problem.  I have updated
> them from the latest available in the upstream sources and am presently
> running another build.
> 
It turns out that build ended up failing.  (I meant to ping back as soon
as it had completed, but I did not get around to it.)  I tried a build
of the current version (8.0.14-1+deb8u11) with test SSL certificates
updated from upstream, and that build failed as well.  A total of 12
unit tests failed.

This makes me wonder if I am missing something.  I can understand the
SSL certificate expiry preventing a rebuild of the package.  But I
cannot understand how the build would fail otherwise.  I will dig into
the test failures tonight, but I would appreciate any thoughts on what
might be going wrong.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez