Well, making it live at the top of the source tree is not working. Can
you explain why that makes a big difference? Are you actually using
the mahout script, live, in the build tree? If so, I need to find a
different solution to the problem at hand.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Drew Farris <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, the bin directory should live at the top level of the source tree
> On Oct 25, 2010 7:55 PM, "Benson Margulies" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hang on everyone. Jeff is trying to prove that you can build the
>> distro, bin and all, from the src tarball.
>>
>> He's right! Something's wrong. No bin directory If I fetch from svn at
>> the mahout-0.4 tag and build, I get a bin. If I grab from the repo, I
>> do not get a bin.
>>
>> I know what the problem is. Since the mahout shell script lives
>> outside any of the maven projects, it is not swept into the source
>> archive all all.
>>
>> So, I VOTE -1, and I will fix this.
>>
>> I owe Jeff a giant apology and a thank-you for finding this.
>>
>> The fix is to move that bin directory. I'm going to do that right now.
>

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