Re: [gentoo-java] tomcat 6 on amd64

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

Cory,
	Are you running a Opteron processor?

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 15:39 -0700, Corey wrote:
> Hey folks! Really hoping someone can help me out, hope these questions aren't
> considered too simple to be answered; sorry if I'm asking on the wrong place.
>
> Anyhow, I can't get tomcat6 installed on my amd64 system; the ebuild dies
> with:

Please see bug for more information
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178980

> ... I've read plenty of similar things, in which the big fix appears to set
> '-J-Xmx256m' or thereabouts to the javac... however, being somewhat new to
> java, I'm not certain where/how to do this in the ebuild, or during the
> emerge.

You can add

export ANT_OPTS="-Xmx128m"

Just after src_compile and digest ebuild.

Or use any jdk BUT 1.5.0.11 on amd64 Opterons.

> Is there a place to set system-wide, or per-user JAVAC options?

I do not believe so at this time.

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William L. Thomson Jr.
Gentoo/Java