From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Dec 9 15:13:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 15:13:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [212.209.169.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216A737B400; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 15:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from palle.girgensohn.se (c193.150.250.87.cm-upc.chello.se [193.150.250.87]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02702; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:13:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palle.girgensohn.se (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB9NDF917735; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:13:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Sender: girgen@partitur.se Message-ID: <3A32BC8B.CDED80D2@partitur.se> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:13:15 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: OKAZAKI Tetsurou , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/23357: New port: java/jakarta-regexp References: <200012091610.eB9GA2L55192@freefall.freebsd.org> <86y9xpik27.wl@dolphin.be.to> <3A329C27.10F72E2A@partitur.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Palle Girgensohn writes: > > tomcat has a reputation of beeing rather buggy, IMHO. If the > > port would actually be *built* instead of just installed from > > binary, it would be easy to add patches as they come up (I have > > a small one already...). > > I tried. It's non-trivial because the source isn't distributed in a > sane fashion; there are bits in the binary dists that are missing from > the source dists. I don't remember the details, but I never managed to > build something remotely like the binary distribution of ant, and > without that I couldn't build tomcat. There is a port of the new ant just submitted. Maybe it'll help? /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message