On the 0x416 day of Apache Harmony Tim Ellison wrote: > Egor Pasko 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? > > > >> 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. > > 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? > > Add a link to the wiki from [1] -- it's better that everyone can > easily contribute to that body of knowledge.
appears that the link is already there, wow :) > Regards, > Tim > > >> 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
