| repost: trooubled with ant from source install | repost: trooubled with ant from source install 2007-07-23 - By Alexey Solofnenko
Run as following: .\bootstrap\bin\ant -f fetch.xml
- Alexey.
Tena Sakai wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I like what you mention. I located and looked at the
> file fetch.xml. I would like to pursue this avenue.
> But I am clueless as to how I can "invoke" this xml
> file. Would you please tell me how I can do so?
> Thank you.
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai@(protected)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Reilly [mailto:peter.kitt.reilly@(protected)]
> Sent: Mon 7/23/2007 10:14 AM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: repost: trooubled with ant from source install
>
> On 7/23/07, Alexey Solofnenko <A.Solofnenko@(protected)> wrote:
>
>> I do not think you need to download any jars, if you are building ANT
>> for yourself - you have to have all necessary jars already to run ANT.
>>
>
> This is not quite correct.
> The optional tasks/types need jars to be downloaded and
> placed in $ANT_SRC/lib/optional.
>
> I normally compile a subset of ant for testing.
>
> To compile all of ant, one needs non publiclly available
> jars (weblogic, starteam and others).
>
> The file fetch.xml gets most of the
> publically available jars and places then
> in the currect place (depending on how fetch.xml is called
> - check the fetch.xml file for a read me).
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>> I have an automated script to build ANT. First, the script empties
>> CLASSPATH, sets JAVA_HOME and PATH. Then copies all necessary jars
>>
> into
>
>> $ANT_DIR/lib/optional folder, deletes $ANT_DIR/bootstrap, and runs
>> "call build.bat distribution".
>>
>> There can be additional steps to make ANT to forget about any
>>
> previously
>
>> installed ANT on your system.
>>
>> - Alexey.
>>
>> Tena Sakai wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Sorry to repost, but I haven't got much response...
>>>
>>> I am having a problem with installing ant 1.7.0 from source
>>> on redhat enterprise server (amd-64).
>>>
>>> What happens is that when I issue a command:
>>>
>>> sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=/usr/local/ant dist
>>>
>>> it complains that a bunch of jar files were not built because no
>>> files were included. For example:
>>>
>>> /usr/local/ant/apache-ant-1.7.0/build/lib/ant-apache-regexp.jar
>>>
>>> According to the instruction on website:
>>>
>>> Make sure you have downloaded any auxiliary jars required to
>>> build tasks you are interested in. These should be added to
>>> the lib/optional directory of the source tree.
>>>
>>> I went and got jakarta-regexp-1.5.tar.gz, gunzip'ed, untar'ed
>>> and found a file jakarta-regexp.jar (as well as
>>>
> jakarta-regexp-1.5.jar,
>
>>> which turns out to be the same as the other), and copied it into
>>> ...src/lib/optional directory (which didn't exist; so I created
>>> it). I tried with 'sh build.sh bla bla' once again, but the
>>> result is the same as before, it seems. I have tried to put
>>> the jar file into a different lib/optional directories, but the
>>> result seems the same through out. I am at wit's end as to
>>> how to interpret this instruction (one more time):
>>>
>>> Make sure you have downloaded any auxiliary jars required to
>>> build tasks you are interested in. These should be added to
>>> the lib/optional directory of the source tree.
>>>
>>> I am starting to feel it is a mistake to follow the instruction
>>> above to letters. Maybe, instead, I need to provide java source
>>> files and the build process will make jar files out of the source
>>> code and put them into a destination? Is there somebody out there
>>> (I am sure the answer is yes) who have done this and willing to
>>> give me a hand, please? I would greatly appreciate it.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tena Sakai
>>> tsakai@(protected)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>>
>>
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>> Alexey N. Solofnenko <http://trelony.cjb.net/>
>> Pleasant Hill, CA (GMT-8 usually)
>>
>>
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