[Fedora-directory-users] notes on building fds in etch and a failed build question

[Ryan Braun]

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 9:54 pm, Rich Megginson wrote:
> Ryan Braun wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 5:05 pm, Rich Megginson wrote:
> >>> So that being said,  is there an easy way to
> >>> use FC jars,  or do I need to build them for debian?  (I have started
> >>> trying to build jss but am having some issues)
> >>
> >> Yes.  Just grab them from /usr/share/dirsrv/html/java.  I suggest using
> >> tar or another program to preserve the symlinks - but no big deal as the
> >> jar files are small if you use cp and get redundant copies.  The jar
> >> files are platform independent.
> >
> > I am getting an error with my built jar files.  I connect up fine (bind
> > with cn=Directory Manager).  When I start expanding the tree, and click
> > on the + sign next to Server Group.  It throws an error
> >
> > Failed to instantiate Server Object for Administration server
> >
> > com.netscape.management.admserv.AdminServer cannot be cast to
> > com.netscape.management.client.topology.IServerObject
> >
> > I click ok,  and a slightly different error comes up
> >
> > Failed to instantiate Server Object for Directory Server
> >
> > com.netscape.admin.dirserv.DSAdmin cannot be cast to
> > com.netscape.management.client.topology.IServerObject
> >
> > If I click on the directory server under server group,  it says This
> > server component has not been downloaded or it could not be activated.  I
> > can see they were downloaded to C:\Documents and
> > Settings\bullpen\.fedora-idm-console\jars.
> >
> > I ran the console with a -D 9 and have the output up on pastbin
> >
> > http://www.pastebin.org/21380
> >
> > Looks like the errors are around line 475, 860 and 890.
>
> Yeah, those are weird.  What version of Java did you use to build those
> jar files?  I note that you are using Sun Java 1.6 on Windows - we've
> not tested with that version, only 1.5.
>

Hah,  right when I sent this off I was thinking,  I should have included java 
versions :)

fdsbuild:/opt/dirsrv/share/dirsrv/html/java# java -version
java version "1.5.0_10"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_10-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_10-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
fdsbuild:/opt/dirsrv/share/dirsrv/html/java# dpkg -l |grep sun
ii  sun-java5-bin                     1.5.0-10-3                               
Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (
ii  sun-java5-demo                    1.5.0-10-3                               
Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos
ii  sun-java5-jdk                     1.5.0-10-3                               
Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
ii  sun-java5-jre                     1.5.0-10-3                               
Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (

I'm not sure what happened in the build process,  but the jars I made are 
quite alot larger in  size compared to the fc8 jars.  Mine are 1.1.1 fc 8 
1.1.0 (at least the non _en ones anyhow)

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   37521 2008-02-26 17:22 fedora-admin-1.1.0_en.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  174456 2008-02-26 17:22 fedora-admin-1.1.0.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   37563 2008-02-26 18:51 fedora-admin-1.1.1_en.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2486692 2008-02-26 18:51 fedora-admin-1.1.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   54302 2007-11-07 21:59 fedora-ds-1.1.0_en.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1409434 2007-11-07 21:59 fedora-ds-1.1.0.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   54534 2008-02-26 18:50 fedora-ds-1.1.1_en.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2470933 2008-02-26 18:50 fedora-ds-1.1.1.jar



> > I also have the build process I used when making the java components up
> > on pastebin aswell.
> >
> > http://www.pastebin.org/21394
> >
> > The windows console will work fine if I delete the downloaded jars from
> > windows.  And then copy over fc8 supplied jars
> > into /opt/dirsrv/share/dirsrv/html/java ( and symlink them after).  So
> > something in the build process is breaking my jars I guess :)
>
> I think the current jars for f8 were built with ibm java 1.5.

To be honest,  for myself I'm fine with using the fc8 jars.  I can't really 
see myself using the console very much other then initial setup.  I've 
written several perl scripts for day to day stuff (user creation, editing 
etc).