On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Manju and Nathan, > > Thanks for your help working through these issues. I had tried all your > suggestions and still had no joy, so I have just downloaded the latest > tar.gz of ant and installed it manually. It's now picking up ecj.jar from > ~/.ant/lib and I now have successfully compiled harmony on Fedora. > > Would it be useful if I document everything I've done so it can go into the > wiki along with these instructions - > http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/DevelopmentPlatformConfiguration ?
That would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking I need to setup a Fedora VM and check this out. > > There were a few tricks to it on fedora (mainly packages being named > differently to Ubuntu). > > Regards, > Andrew. > > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:01:37 +1000, Manju Vijayakumar <manju.b...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Andrew, >> >> Is /usr/share/ant/lib on your PATH environment variable? This is to check >> you are copying to the right ANT installation folder. >> >> Thanks, >> Manju >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Manju, >>> >>> Thanks for taking the time to reply. >>> >>> Yes I downloaded it from here: >>> >>> >>> >>> http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4.2-200902111700/index.php#JDTCORE >>> >>> (That link is terribly well hidden by the way!) >>> >>> The file I downloaded is ecj-3.4.2.jar >>> >>> I placed it in /usr/share/ant/lib, which as far as I can determine is >>> where >>> ant was installed by yum. >>> >>> But I still get the message saying "Please place the ECJ JAR in >>> ANT_HOME/lib" >>> >>> I installed ant on Fedora with yum - the version is 1.7.1. There isn't >>> an >>> ANT_HOME environment variable set, but I tried this and it still gave the >>> same message. So I'm a bit confused. Is there any other place it might >>> be >>> looking for it, or something I can run to double check I have the right >>> place? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andrew. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:19:50 +1000, Manju Vijayakumar < >>> manju.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Andrew, >>>> >>>> About the ecj.jar, you need to manually download ecj.jar and put it in >>>> your >>>> ANT lib folder. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Manju >>>> >>>> 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.zipto >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> /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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >>> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >
