Lo David,

You were right about the externals. Thanks to your help i was finally able to build cocoon r351990.

These are the steps that worked for me:

1. checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk in rev 351990

2. checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/blocks (i used rev 351990 - rev. number changed automaticaly)
(into folder cocoon/src/blocks)

3. checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/gump/metadata/project/cocoon/module.xml in rev 351990
(into folder cocoon/src/gump/)

4. insert/add some changes** to cocoon/lib/jars.xml
see:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cocoon-cvs/200512.mbox/[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]

5. copy local.build.properties and local.blocks.properties from
apache-forrest-0.8/etc/cocoon_upgrade into cocoon/

6. build cocoon


I did not test to integrate the outcoming jars with forrest0.8 by now, but this is not topic of this discussion.

Thanks a million, David! You really helped me out with this.

best regards
llamar





**changes to cocoon/lib/jars.xml

<file id="mx4j-jmx">
   <title>JMX interfaces</title>
   <description>
     The JMX interfaces from the MX4J project.
   </description>
   <used-by>Core</used-by>
   <lib>core/mx4j-jmx-3.0.1.jar</lib>
   <homepage>http://mx4j.sourceforge.net/</homepage>
 </file>

 <file id="jetty-jmx">
   <title>Jetty JMX</title>
   <description>
     Jetty JMX support for ModelMBeanImpl.
   </description>
   <used-by>Core</used-by>
   <lib>core/jetty-jmx-5.1.8.jar</lib>
   <homepage>http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty/</homepage>
  </file>