Author: steveh
Date: Tue Mar  8 15:24:47 2005
New Revision: 156584

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=156584
Log:
Calling out the counter-intuitive path for FORREST_HOME, which everyone seems 
gets wrong the when they install Forrest on their machine.  

Modified:
    incubator/beehive/trunk/BUILDING.txt

Modified: incubator/beehive/trunk/BUILDING.txt
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/incubator/beehive/trunk/BUILDING.txt?view=diff&r1=156583&r2=156584
==============================================================================
--- incubator/beehive/trunk/BUILDING.txt (original)
+++ incubator/beehive/trunk/BUILDING.txt Tue Mar  8 15:24:47 2005
@@ -134,26 +134,26 @@
 
 Building Beehive documentation
 =============================
-In order to build the Beehive documentation, you will need to have
-Apache Forrest installed locally.  The following targets in
-${beehive.home}/build.xml have this requirement: 
+The following documentation-related targets in
+beehive/trunk/build.xml require that you have 
+Apache Forrest installed locally: 
 
     $>ant docs
     $>ant build.dist  
 
 Before running these targets, complete the following steps.
 
-1) Download a Forrest 0.6 archive from one of the following locations:
+1) Download and install Forrest 0.6 on your machine.
+Download locations are shown below:
 
     For Windows machines:
     http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/Apache/dist/forrest/apache-forrest-0.6.zip
 
     For Unix machines:
     http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/Apache/dist/forrest/apache-forrest-0.6.tar.gz
+     
 
-2) Unzip the archive onto your machine.  You may unzip to any location.  
-
-3) Copy the JAR file 
+2) Copy the JAR file 
 
     apache-forrest-0.6/lib/core/xml-commons-resolver-1.1.jar
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
 
 (This allows the Ant targets to call Forrest tasks.)
 
-4) In the command shell (where you have already run beehiveEnv.cmd|.sh) set 
FORREST_HOME as follows.
+3) Ensure that FORREST_HOME is set to the following path.
 
     On Windows machines:
     set FORREST_HOME=C:\MyApacheStuff\apache-forrest-0.6\src\core
@@ -171,7 +171,19 @@
     On Unix machines:
     export FORREST_HOME=/MyApacheStuff/apache-forrest-0.6/src/core
 
-5) Set the PATH as follows:
+
+        *****************************************************
+        *                                                   *
+        *   Note: FORREST_HOME ends with the path element   *
+        *                                                   *
+        *                   src/core                        *
+        *                                                   *
+        *   If FORREST_HOME does not end with src/core,     *
+        *   the documentation-related targets will fail!    *
+        *                                                   *
+        *****************************************************
+
+4) Set the PATH as follows:
 
     On Windows machines: 
     set PATH=%FORREST_HOME%\bin;%PATH%


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