Rainer, your mail has not popped up when I sent mine. Thanks for the detailed description :)
Kind regards, Dimitris On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM Dimitris Soumis <dsou...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM Darryl Baker <darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu> > wrote: > >> My question is why is tomcat-native dependent on APR at all? Could it be >> built without that dependency? >> > Tomcat Native relies on the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) to bridge the > gap between Tomcat, and native OS capabilities. APR provides APIs that map > to the OS. Tomcat Native is able to provide the performance increases due > to apr bypassing Java’s virtualized layer. So no, tomcat-native can not be > built without that dependency. > >> Can I build tomcat native on Rocky Linux? Then could I use it on Red Hat? >> Has anyone tried that? >> > The building process of tomcat native is OS agnostic. As long as the > required dependencies are provided to the building process, everything > should work flawlessly. > However, for the libraries produced in one system to work with another > system depends on factors such as the other system having equal various > library versions like glibc or OpenSSL, equal cpu architecture etc. > >> Darryl Baker, GSEC, GCLD (he/him/his) >> Sr. System Administrator >> Distributed Application Platform Services >> Northwestern University >> 4th Floor >> 2020 Ridge Avenue >> Evanston, IL 60208-0801 >> darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu <mailto:darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu> >> (847) 467-6674 <tel:+18474676674> >> >> >> >> >> On 2/6/25, 4:26 AM, "Dimitris Soumis" <dsou...@apache.org <mailto: >> dsou...@apache.org>> wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM Darryl Baker < >> darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu <mailto:darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu>> >> wrote: >> >> >> > I could if there was one. Red Hat stopped having Tomcat in the OS >> > distribution and is now part of the JBoss product the University decided >> > not to buy. >> > >> Tomcat is available in the OS distribution other than the Jboss web server >> product. Tomcat-native is not. >> >> >> > [root@XXX] tomcat-native-2.0.8-src]# yum search tomcat-native >> > Updating Subscription Management repositories. >> > No matches found. >> > [root@XXX] tomcat-native-2.0.8-src]# >> > >> > Darryl Baker, GSEC, GCLD (he/him/his) >> > Sr. System Administrator >> > Distributed Application Platform Services >> > Northwestern University >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On 2/4/25, 4:21 PM, "Christopher Schultz" <ch...@christopherschultz.net >> <mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net> >> > <mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net <mailto: >> ch...@christopherschultz.net>>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Darryl, >> > >> > >> > On 2/3/25 1:17 PM, Darryl Baker wrote: >> > > Would someone please point me to the documentation on building >> > tomcat-native on RHEL 8 using the Red Hat supplied APR package? >> > >> > >> > Do you need to build from source, or can you use the RHEL binary? >> > >> > >> > $ sudo yum search tomcat-native >> > ===== Name Exactly Matched: tomcat-native ===== >> > tomcat-native.x86_64 : Tomcat native library >> > >> > >> > If you truly need to build, we can probably update the documentation to >> > indicate which popular packages would be necessary before building from >> > source. >> > >> > >> > -chris >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org <mailto: >> users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> <mailto: >> > users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org <mailto: >> users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org>> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org <mailto: >> users-h...@tomcat.apache.org> <mailto: >> > users-h...@tomcat.apache.org <mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org>> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org <mailto: >> users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org <mailto: >> users-h...@tomcat.apache.org> >> > >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >
