Author: bodewig
Date: Tue Aug 18 11:35:11 2009
New Revision: 805369
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=805369&view=rev
Log:
document chmod.fail property. PR 22500
Modified:
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html?rev=805369&r1=805368&r2=805369&view=diff
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--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html Tue Aug 18 11:35:11 2009
@@ -679,6 +679,17 @@
<code>install-lite</code> targets will overwrite
the current Ant version in <code>ANT_HOME</code>.</p>
+<p>Ant's build script will try to set executable flags for its shell
+ scripts on Unix-like systems. There are various reasons why the
+ chmod-task might fail (like when you are running the build script as
+ a different user than the one who installed Ant initially). In this
+ case you can set the Ant property <code>chmod.fail</code> to false
+ when starting the build like in
+<blockquote>
+ <p><code>sh build.sh install -Dchmod.fail=false</code></p>
+</blockquote>
+and any error to change permission will not result in a build failure.</p>
+
<hr>
<h2><a name="librarydependencies">Library Dependencies</a></h2>
<p>The following libraries are needed in Ant's classpath
