I am a Tomcat newbie, having been a Perl webguy for the past 5 years.
Because I like to build that which I use from source, I am trying to get Tomcat running on my Linux laptop using a build.xml file from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/build.xml <http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/build.xml> I created a /home/tomcatd/tomcat_build directory, put the build.xml file in there, and then created a build.properties file with base.path=/home/tomcatd/lib $ pwd /home/tomcatd/tomcat_build $ ls build.xml build.properties $ ant ... blah blah blah - build was successful $ ls build.properties jakarta-servletapi-5 jakarta-tomcat-connectors build.xml jakarta-tomcat-5 jakarta-tomcat-jasper jakarta-commons jakarta-tomcat-catalina LICENSE This is all the instructions for 'Building Tomcat' say to do. $ cd jakarta-tomcat-5 $ ls BENCHMARKS.txt compat NOTICE RUNNING.txt Build CVS RELEASE-NOTES tomcat.nsi BUILDING.txt deployer RELEASE-PLAN-5.0.txt build.properties.default KEYS RELEASE-PLAN-5.5.txt build.xml LICENSE resources $ cd build $ ls bin common docs logs shared tests work classes conf lib server temp webapps This is the stuff ( I think ) that comes with the pre-compiled distributions. It would seem there is one more step akin to a 'make install' that I need to perform, but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know what I would need to do to actually install the stuff in the build directory into another directory from which it could be used? Yes, I know I could just copy the stuff out myself, but I would have a nagging feeling there might be an 'ant install' step I should have done that may or may not do more than just copy stuff. Thanks. ----------------------------------------- Please note that with our change to TD Banknorth, N.A. our e-mail addresses have changed. Please make note of my new e-mail address. And while our name has changed, remember this: Everything else has stayed the same.
