I think you're getting caught in a check for FreeBSD. Can you try applying this patch to adjust the dependency calculation.
Index: common_resources/make/properties.xml =================================================================== --- common_resources/make/properties.xml (revision 769212) +++ common_resources/make/properties.xml (working copy) @@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ <condition property="hy.platform.suffix" value=".7x"> <!-- matches would be better but debian stable has ant 1.6.5 and matches was only added to 1.7.0 and above --> - <contains substring="7." string="${os.version}"/> + <and> + <equals arg1="FreeBSD" arg2="${os.name}" casesensitive="false" /> + <contains substring="7." string="${os.version}"/> + </and> </condition> <property name="hy.platform.suffix" value="" /> <property name="hy.platform.variant" Once the downloads actually work, you can copy the ecj JAR from the dependencies in common_resources. You'll want to copy the junit JAR as well. -Nathan On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly I hope I am okay to ask this "newbie" type question on this list... > > I'm trying to build harmony on Fedora 10, following the instructions at > http://harmony.apache.org/quickhelp_contributors.html > > At the moment I am stuck with this error when I run the ant build: > > /home/andrew/projects/harmony/common_resources/make/depends.xml:200: Can't > get > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/harmony/standard/depends/libs/linux.x86.7x/icu-3.4.zip > to > /home/andrew/projects/harmony/common_resources/depends/libs/linux.x86.7x/icu-3.4/icu-3.4.zip > > Is there anwhere else I can get this file from? > > And just as a more general question, has anyone else tried successfully to > build harmony on F10? The doco I could find all referred to Ubuntu. I > think I've made some progress on finding the dependencies I need, although > I'm still having trouble getting ant to find the ecj.jar file. If anyone > has been through this and could point me in the right direction that'd be > great. Otherwise, I'll keep documenting what I've done and perhaps it will > be useful to someone else in the future. > > Many thanks, > Andrew. >