Hi, I solved my problems, having successfully compiled Excalibur. Just a few hints for people having similar problems (or am I the only one who is that stupid?):
1) In the top-level ant.properties(.sample) file the version numbers of the Xerces and Xalan jar files have to be updated to the ones found under jakarta-avalon/tools/lib. 2) The property avalon.framework.home has to be changed from (...)/jakarta-avalon/build/lib to (...)/jakarta-avalon/target/lib. 3) Using ant 1.5.1 I got an error complaining about an incorrect "zipgroupfileset" element nested in a jar task that is part of the "build.xml" under (...)/fortress. I changed it to "zipfileset", ommitting the "group" part only to get a complaint about the "destfile" attribute. Though the ant docs state that "destfile" is supported, I changed it to "jarfile" and it worked like a charm. [4) I found out that - at least under Windows - you cannot use symbolic links in ant.properties files :( ] Items 2 and 3 might hint at possible bugs in the build system though I am not sure how much of it might be ant version dependant. Anyways, thanks for a great framework, Olaf > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Olaf Bergner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 17:26 > An: Avalon User List > Betreff: [CVS] How to compile Avalon/Excalibur > > > Hi, > > I have been quietly following discussions on this list for a few weeks, > striving to port a little pet app of mine to (preferably) Fortress. > Recognizing that the whole Avalon/Excalibur project seems to undergo a > complete overhaul (or should this be a permanent situation?;)) I > decided on > fetching the sources via CVS, the more so since Fortress/Merlin > are not yet > released. > Unfortunately, I got stuck while trying to compile > "jakarta-avalon-excalibur". I am not a Java expert, much less an > ant expert > but I understand that the ant scripts that come with the sources seem to > assume a certain directory layout for additionally needed packages etc. I > have gambled a bit with the ant.properties file but until now to no avail. > The java compiler keeps complaining about missing class definitions, most > notably those pertaining to the *.extension.* package. > What I did was creating a top-level directory "CVS-Modules" and > checking out > jakarta-avalon, jakarta-avalon-excalibur and > jakarta-avalon-logkit into it, > so as to have all required sources neatly combined under one common > directory. But this failed to work out as expected. > So I would like to know whether there is a better directory layout, or how > to adapt the ant.properties file so as to compile Excalibur? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, > > Olaf > > Olaf Bergner > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
