On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to > switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/), > as it is a pain to have to update both Makefile and build.xml when > modifications are made, and Ant is more powerful, and easier to > use than make. More powerful than GNU make? That's difficult to believe... but we don't use make as make, we basically call a shell script. > > Some advice though, I have had little luck with installing either > Ant's .deb or .rpm packages, I suggest Linux users > download the binary tarball, put it somewhere like /opt/ant, and add > "/opt/ant/bin" to your $PATH. Note that Ant requires Java v1.1 or > later. Ewwwww. The debian package seems to work. Why not make the makefile call ant? This seems like unnecessary complexity, anyway. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc. http://www.uprizer.com/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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