Daemon / tomcat 5.5 : building on debian testing / sarge

[Minty <mi...@gmail.com>]

(I'm new here, and new to Jakarta, so apologies if it's the wrong place).

Been trying to install Tomcat on a fresh install of debian
testing/sarge.  I hit one problem that I eventually found a fix for in
the bugs database, and I guess essentially I'm suggesting it might be
worth either patching into cvs, or at least updating the docs about
this specific bug.

But I don't really know how to do either, so I'm hoping someone can
either help or point me in a better direction.

I hit this bug (marked as re-opened)
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31017

It points at some documentation on this bug here
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/faq.html

As it turns out, I resolved the problem ONLY by adding the line

AC_PREREQ(2.53)

to the top of ~/jakarta-tomcat-5/build/bin/jsvc-src/configure.in as
suggested at the bottom of the bug report.

Namely, I didn't have to upgrade autoconf, I just added the above line
and re-tried, and this time it worked.   Thus, I'm wondering if there
are down-sides (to other people/platforms) to adding that line into
configure.in in cvs, or if there are - then updating the docs with a
note about this?.  If someone can point me at the process/list/cvs
location I'll happily submit the patch.

For the record, the setup/install I was using:
- Installed Debian stable (woody).  Fairly minimal install
- tweaked apt/sources.list to use Debian testing/sarge; apt-get
update; apt-get upgrade
- Installed from source / by hand
-- apache 2.0.52 
-- apache's ant 1.6.2
-- Sun's JDK 5.0, following 11.2 in
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch11.html
- Installed Tomcat 5.5 from source folllowing
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/building.html
- Followed (unix) setup instructions at 
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html

It was while trying to run autoconf line that it burped.  Fix'd as
defined above.  All good and running now.  Just need to figure out how
to start/stop it using jsvc :)

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