Optionally copy your build.properties file to .../jakarta-tomcat-5. Then in your .../jakarta-tomcat-5/build.properties file add the property: tomcat.dist=/path/to/my/tomcat/install/dir
Then from .../jakarta-tomcat-5 do 'ant dist'. This is the closest to 'ant install' that you can get. The other option (w/o necessarily setting the property above) is to do 'ant release' from the .../jakarta-tomcat-5 directory. That will create the source and binary release .tar.gz and .zip files that you could otherwise install just as if you had downloaded them. In short, the top-level build.xml is just a convenience file. The one with all the power is the one in jakarta-tomcat-5. "Clark, Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am a Tomcat newbie, having been a Perl webguy for the past 5 years. > > > > Because I like to build that which I use from source, I am trying to get > Tomcat running on my Linux laptop using a build.xml file from > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/build.xml > <http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/build.xml> > > > > I created a /home/tomcatd/tomcat_build directory, put the build.xml file > in > there, and then created a build.properties file with > base.path=/home/tomcatd/lib > > > > $ pwd > > /home/tomcatd/tomcat_build > > $ ls > > build.xml > > build.properties > > $ ant > > > > ... blah blah blah - build was successful > > > > $ ls > > build.properties jakarta-servletapi-5 > jakarta-tomcat-connectors > > build.xml jakarta-tomcat-5 > jakarta-tomcat-jasper > > jakarta-commons jakarta-tomcat-catalina LICENSE > > > > > > > > This is all the instructions for 'Building Tomcat' say to do. > > > > $ cd jakarta-tomcat-5 > > $ ls > > BENCHMARKS.txt compat NOTICE > RUNNING.txt > > Build CVS > RELEASE-NOTES tomcat.nsi > > BUILDING.txt deployer > RELEASE-PLAN-5.0.txt > > build.properties.default KEYS > RELEASE-PLAN-5.5.txt > > build.xml LICENSE resources > > > > $ cd build > > $ ls > > bin common docs logs shared tests > work > > classes conf lib server temp > webapps > > > > > > This is the stuff ( I think ) that comes with the pre-compiled > distributions. > > > > It would seem there is one more step akin to a 'make install' that I need > to > perform, but I can't seem to find it. > > > > Does anyone know what I would need to do to actually install the stuff in > the build directory into another directory from which it could be used? > > > > Yes, I know I could just copy the stuff out myself, but I would have a > nagging feeling there might be an 'ant install' step I should have done > that > may or may not do more than just copy stuff. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > Please note that with our change to TD Banknorth, N.A. our e-mail > addresses > have changed. Please make note of my new e-mail address. And while our > name > has changed, remember this: Everything else has stayed the same. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
