Hi, > People who are having trouble with building are trying to build from the > source distribution and/or the Git repository. Things are a little more > complicated that way, but the vast majority of people won't need to deal > with that type of build.
The building from source is important as far as Apache is concerned. In fact of the source package is considered the release [1][2] Thanks, Justin 1. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what-must-every-release-contain