>>>>> Timo Schoeler writes:

Timo> deneb# /etc/rc.d/tomcat5 start
Timo> Starting tomcat.
Timo> The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined
Timo> This environment variable is needed to run this program

It's been a while since I used Tomcat from pkgsrc and I remember few
details, but this error I do remember. I managed to dig out the patch
below that I had to use to make it work. I'm not sure why I did not
send-pr this, it was a while ago. :)

Best regards,

        -- Urban

Index: pkgsrc/www/jakarta-tomcat/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /anoncvs/pkgsrc/www/jakarta-tomcat/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -r1.49 Makefile
--- pkgsrc/www/jakarta-tomcat/Makefile  11 Oct 2004 21:15:48 -0000      1.49
+++ pkgsrc/www/jakarta-tomcat/Makefile  30 Nov 2004 18:25:53 -0000
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 .endfor
 .undef f
 
-FILES_SUBST+=  JAVA_HOME=${PKG_JVM_HOME} TOMCAT_LIB=${TOMCAT_LIB}
+FILES_SUBST+=  JAVA_HOME=${PKG_JAVA_HOME} TOMCAT_LIB=${TOMCAT_LIB}
 
 do-build:
        @${MV} ${WRKSRC}/conf ${WRKDIR}