first, this is rather out of scope for FOP and this mail list; i doubt if any other dev is building these tools from source just to use when working with FOP; i certainly am not; on the other hand, I do keep the sources of these tools on hand for documentation purposes;
i suggest you use binaries of the tools, and not attempt to compile them from sources unless absolutely necessary (e.g., to fix or debug a tool bug); otherwise, you are just making extra work for yourself On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Eric Douglas <[email protected]>wrote: > I assume either the FOP developers know why there's a circular reference > and have the resolution or they just use the compiled jars and ignore > the issue. > Starting with the compiled ant.jar which comes with the Eclipse download > resolved the issue even though it didn't answer the question. > Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: mehdi houshmand [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? > > Hi Eric, > > Well, that kind of depends on how you work. It's always good to have the > source at hand if you want to look, but realistically, you're never > going to delve into the ant code. If you want further help, could you > post on the ant forums, this isn't a FOP issue. > > Sorry if not helped, > > Mehdi > > On 19 July 2011 16:09, Eric Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've tried to reference a source project rather than a compiled jar > > wherever possible. > > The annoying part of referencing the compiled jar is when I run from > > the IDE in debug mode and it pops up windows saying no code attached. > > Plus I thought it made more sense to have the source for everything > > open sourced in case there's any reusable code or any confusion on > > what the methods do. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Benson Margulies [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:49 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? > > > > Eric, > > > > Unless you are working on Gentoo Linux, you should not even consider > > this path. Just download ant. Ant, being a build tool, has a complex > > bootstrap process. ant.apache.org will provide you with a zip file > > with a perfectly working copy of Ant you can use. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Eric Douglas > > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> The circular referencing doesn't make sense, but I'm compiling in > >> Eclipse Helios on Windows XP. > >> I found that Eclipse does come with an ant folder under it's plugin > >> path so I started with the ant.jar from there. > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: mehdi houshmand [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:08 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? > >> > >> Hi Eric, > >> > >> What operating system are you working on? You probably don't need to > >> compile ant, there will almost definitely be binaries for your > >> operating system. > >> > >> Mehdi > >> > >> On 19 July 2011 13:58, Eric Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> If I try to compile fop source it says it requires ant. > >>> If I download the source for ant and try to compile it says it > >> requires bsf. > >>> If I download the source for bsf and try to compile it says it > >>> requires jython. > >>> If I download the source for jython and try to compile it says it > >>> requires ant. > >> > > >
