Hi Daniel, thanks for the reply. I also downloaded the binary dist. However, after i untarred it, it did not even have a build.xml file. The included README.txt file, however, still says something about running ant... so I am a little confused. can you give me some more guidance, please? thanks.
best wishes Jim On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:08:19 -0400 (EDT), Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Unless you need to modify the source of v1.2-b1, you can download it from > the distribution directory. Here's a mirror: > http://apache.sunsite.ualberta.ca/ws/xmlrpc/v1.2-b1/ > > If you're up for it, you can check out the latest CVS source and set up > your default.properties/building.properties file as below and then run > "ant" which would build the jar files. Note you might need to get some > jars and point to their location in the .properties (see last few > lines--I've placed the jars in the ./lib directory). > > # ------------------------------------------------------------------- > # D E F A U L T P R O P E R T I E S > # ------------------------------------------------------------------- > # These properties are used by the XML-RPC build. You may override > # any of these default values by placing property values in your > # local build.properties and ${user.home}/build.properties files. > # ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > name = XML-RPC > project = xmlrpc > build.dir = ./target > build.dest = ${build.dir}/classes > build.test.dest = ${build.dir}/test-classes > src.dir = ./src > src.test.dir = ${src.dir}/test > test.reportsDirectory = test-reports > javadoc.destdir = ${build.dir}/docs/api > jakarta.site2 = ../jakarta-site2 > jdom.jar = jdom-b7.jar > docs.src = ./xdocs > docs.dest = ./docs > lib.repo = ./lib > year = 1999-2002 > debug = off > optimize = on > deprecation = on > final.name = ${project}-${version} > > # You must set these values here, or in your > # ${user.home}/build.properties file in order > # to build XmlRpc: > > commons-httpclient.jar = ${lib.repo}/commons-httpclient-2.0.jar > commons-logging.jar = ${lib.repo}/commons-logging-1.0.3.jar > commons-codec.jar = ${lib.repo}/commons-codec-1.1.jar > jsse.jar = ${lib.repo}/jsse.jar > jnet.jar = ${lib.repo}/jnet.jar > jcert.jar = ${lib.repo}/jcert.jar > servlet.jar = ${lib.repo}/servlet.jar > junit.jar = ${lib.repo}/junit-3.7.jar > > Regards, > Daniel > > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Jim the Standing Bear wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I downloaded the XML-RPC v1.2 b1 package, but could not build it. > > Whenever I run ant, it would come back with an error message saying > > that in build.xml line 137 that the source directory does not exist. > > > > I looked at the readme file included in the package, and it says > > something about configuring the build.properties file in the build > > directory. However, I could not even see the build directory at all, > > let along finding the .properties file in there. > > > > Please help. I am using redhat 9. thanks > > > > best wishes > > > > Jim > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------- > > Standing Bear Has Spoken > > -------------------------------------- > > > -- -------------------------------------- Standing Bear Has Spoken --------------------------------------