This might be a dumb question, but did you set your ANT_HOME variable?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Thivierge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Help installing ant 1.4
>
>
> I am trying to install ant version 1.4 from the source
> and I am always
> getting the error bellow. Can someone point me to the
> right direction to get
> it compile properly (my system is SuSE 7.0).
>
> Thanks.
>
> ============message================
>
>
> daniel@flyer:~/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4 > export
> JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk1.2.2
> daniel@flyer:~/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4 > build.sh
> -Ddist.dir=/home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4
> ... Bootstrapping Ant Distribution
> ... Compiling Ant Classes
> Note: 4 files use or override a deprecated API. Recompile with
> "-deprecation" for details.
> 1 warning
> ... Copying Required Files
> ... Building Ant Distribution
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> bootstrap:
>
> prepare:
>
> check_for_optional_packages:
>
> build:
> Compiling 75 source files to
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/build/classes
> Note: 5 files use or override a deprecated API. Recompile with
> "-deprecation" for details.
> 1 warning
> Copying 2 files to
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/build/classes
> Copying 2 files to
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/build/classes/org/apa
> che/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/xsl
>
> jars:
> Building jar:
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/build/lib/ant.jar
> Building jar:
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/build/lib/optional.jar
>
> dist-lite:
> Created dir: /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/bootstrap
> Created dir: /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/bootstrap/bin
> Created dir: /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/bootstrap/lib
> Copying 2 files to
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/bootstrap/lib
> Copying 7 files to
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/bootstrap/bin
>
> BUILD FAILED
>
> /home/daniel/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4/build.xml:331:
> Execute failed:
> java.io.IOException: Cannot locate antRun script:
> Property 'ant.home' not
> found
>
> Total time: 1 minute 45 seconds
> ... Cleaning Up Build Directories
> ... Done Bootstrapping Ant Distribution
> Bootstrap FAILED
> daniel@flyer:~/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4 > ls ./bootstrap/bin
> ant ant.bat antRun antRun.bat lcp.bat runant.pl runant.py
> daniel@flyer:~/web/src/jakarta-ant-1.4 >
>
>
>
