Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > On Jeu 4 août 2005 15:20, David Walluck wrote: > > Gary Benson <gbenson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > slippy:[~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides jndi-ldap > > > ldapjdk-4.17-1jpp_2fc > > > > OK, thanks, but this still doesn't look required to build tomcat5, > > but I think that some part of tomcat5 wants an ldap service > > provider to run. > > It's very possible the ldap is only there for compliance with some > spec, and tomcat code has no use for it. No, it does use it. There's a valve that lets you do authentication using LDAP, or some such thing. > > Anyway, the build of ldapjdk fails when making the javadocs. > > Do we build ldapjdk from sources today ? If so, I'm impressed. The > mozilla source entanglements where pretty bad last time I looked. There was a binary jarfile in there last time I looked. Given that probably nobody uses the LDAP authenticator I'd be tempted to just strip the dependency from tomcat5 rather than mess about fixing ldapjdk. Cheers, Gary
