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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