Advice for building tomcat8 on jessie?

[tony mancill]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 04:18:31PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 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.

Hello Roberto,

If you're still running into build failures, I would be interested in
taking a look.  Could you push your branch to Salsa when you have a
chance?

Cheers,
tony
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