The attached adds building instructions to the README file for the new Ant 1.3 release (and fixes a minor typo). Unfortunately, I do not currently have access to a Win box. If someone could please verify the steps under Windows, that would probably be good. I doubt there are any noteworthy differences, but just in case ... Regards, Christopher
--- README Mon Feb 12 23:08:13 2001 +++ README-new Thu Mar 8 16:41:16 2001 @@ -39,23 +39,48 @@ rename its directory to jaxp-1.0.1. The binary distribution includes jaxp.jar and parser.jar as the built-in XML parser. -* Download and install the Ant version 1.2 distribution (subproject - "jakarta-ant") into a directory named "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant". +* Download and install the Ant distribution (subproject "jakarta-ant"), + version 1.2 or later, into a directory named "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant". + Downloading and installing the binary distribution will avoid the need + to build the executable version. + + If you have downloaded the source distribution, you will need to build + the executable version. Once completed, you should have a valid "ant.jar" + file in the "lib" subdirectory, which will be used when building Tomcat. + Please refer to the Ant documentation for any problems encountered + while building Ant. + + Note: If you are building from source on Win9x, edit the LPC.BAT file in + jakarta-ant\src\bin to remove the trailing LF characters. + + Building Ant 1.2 for Tomcat + You will need to create the "jakarta-ant" directory and extract the files - into it. Downloading and installing the binary distribution will avoid - the need to build the executable version. If you have downloaded the source - distribution, you will need to build the executable version by executing - the following commands: + directly into it. Next, bootstrap the distribution by executing the following: cd $JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant ./bootstrap.sh <-- Unix bootstrap <-- Windows - This should result in the creation of a file "ant.jar" in the "lib" - subdirectory, which will be used when building Tomcat. + Building Ant 1.3 for Tomcat - Note: If you building from source on Win9x, edit the LPC.BAT file in - jakarta-ant\src\bin to remove the trailing LF characters. + Extracting the downloaded file will create the source tree in a new + directory called "jakarta-ant-1.3". This directory should be expanded + beneath $JAKARTA_HOME and renamed to simply "jakarta-ant" (without the + version numbers). Bootstrap the distribution by executing the following: + + cd $JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant + ./bootstrap.sh <-- Unix + bootstrap <-- Windows + + Finally, you will now need to copy some things out of the "bootstrap" + subdirectory into the top-level Ant directory. + + - Copy "ant.jar" from "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant/bootstrap/lib" + into "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant/lib" + + - Copy the entire "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant/bootstrap/bin" + directory into "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-ant" * Download and install the Servletapi distribution (subproject "jakarta-servletapi") into a subdirectory named
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