Replying to self and for the archive: My original post was about "org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP" and class files not being generated by Jikes for no apparent reason.
It turned out to be an non-trivial issue, caused by an outdated glibc version (2.1.x from Red Hat 6.1) on the host. Specifically, the invocation of "jikes -encoding UTF8 HelloWorld.java" would exit with a message "Charset conversion error at offset 0: Argument list too long". Because Jikes returns exit code 0 after this failure, Tomcat failed to reproduce that error message in any of its logs. I filed an appropriate bug report with Jikes (#3463) to resolve this issue for future generations. :-) Of course, figuring that out did involve compiling Tomcat and even Ant and Jikes. Grrr. Take care - JPL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
