On 29 Mar 2008 20:40:49 +0300, Egor Pasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the 0x416 day of Apache Harmony Senaka Fernando wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Thanks to the valuable discussions on this list I was able to > successfully > > build Harmony on Ubuntu 7.10 in less than a day. Below are some of my > > experiences. > > > > 1. Requirement of ant-optional > > is this one really necessary? I do not have it installed and see no > problem on Ubuntu 6, did not try on 7-10 yet. What is the error > message?
Yes, if not it lead to a build break. However, I had several other issues that caused build breaks too, at the point at which I added this package. I suspected that this is required because the error message changed after this package was added. I discovered that this package is required from [1]. [1] http://markmail.org/message/cijagz7kkmqjfke4 > > > > 2. Requirement of setting ANT_OPTS even on Ubuntu > > 3. Xerces distribution at given download target is faulty > > 4. Need to separately checkout log4cxx > > 5. Need to install package libxtst-dev > > updated it on the website, in prerequisites, expect the update to take > effect soon. That's quite nice. Regards, Senaka > > > everyone: I think, it is nice to put the link to DevConfiguration > howtos from the Getting Started For Contributors [1]. Or move the wiki > to separate page(s). What is better? > > > Also, some methods discussed on the list weren't required (ex:- soft > links > > for libXtst). In addition to that I noticed a number of warnings when > > building C/C++ source. > > > > Thanks, > > Senaka > > [1] http://harmony.apache.org/quickhelp_contributors.html > > -- > Egor Pasko > >
