Hi,
With ant for Java, projects should successfully compile using:
tar zxf tarball-src.tar.gz
cd src
ant
I have both J2SDK 1.4.2 and Apache Ant 1.6.5. Yet the instructions for
compiling Derby required such things as:
adding a properties file to my home directory
configuring the properties file
installing javacc
Even after following the BUILD.txt instructions, the compile failed:
compile_reference:
[javac] Compiling 9 source files to derby/10.0/classes
[javac] Fatal Error: Unable to find package java.lang in classpath
or bootclasspath
From a purely technical level, since JavaCC has a BSD license, it can
be included in the distribution. Also, a basic installation can presume
default paths (use relative names, if at all possible), and should be
able to use the environment variables already set (e.g., $ANT_HOME,
$JAVA_HOME), without additional properties.
HSQLDB provides an excellent example of the minimal three-step compile,
and also uses whatever version of Java is installed (e.g., 1.5 or 1.4).
(Okay, it's actually four-step, but the ant command prints out help
saying how to really compile everything; slightly suboptimal, but at
least clear.)
Simple is good. =) Good luck with Derby!
Sincerely,
Dave Jarvis
