I'll do something about this. I think the bit about adding to PATH might have gotten lost somewhere along the way. I'm pretty sure that used to be documented.
Carol On 6/7/12 5 :01AM, "Dirk Eismann" <[email protected]> wrote: >I just gave compiling from source a try and it went through to the >point where the Batik jar gets compiled and packaged - there Ant >exited with an error. The reason was that the "jar" program was not >known to the system which was due to the fact that JAVA_HOME/bin was >not on the search path. This was easy to fix but it should be added to >the README file in the source package (only JAVA_HOME is set but this >does not add the exeutables from /bin) > >E.g. Windows users should make sure that their PATH is set to >PATH=%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin > >Another option would be to always use absolute paths in the build >scripts, e.g. instead of > > <exec executable="jar"> > >use > > <exec executable="${JAVA_HOME}/bin/jar"> > >Dirk.
