Thank you for the additional information. I read the section "The Short Story" which had the item 5 that I quoted above. I see that this section did not refer to building Ant from source. Perhaps item 5 should not be included there.
--glenn On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 19:27, Bruce Atherton <br...@callenish.com> wrote: > If you read that section again, you'll see that these are the steps for > someone building Ant from source code. You are not doing that, so you can > ignore it. > > > On 30/05/2010 2:31 PM, Raul Miranda wrote: > >> Dear Bruce and Glenn, >> >> >> >> Thank you very much for your answers. I want to install the 1.8.1 version >> of Ant in Mac OS X version 10.4.11. Running java -version in a terminal >> gives >> >> >> >> "java version 1.5.0_19" >> >> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306) >> >> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-138, mixed mode, sharing) >> >> >> >> I managed to set the environment variables and got Ant installed. I >> executed the command ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library >> dependencies. This finished with a message >> >> >> >> all: >> >> >> >> BUILD SUCCESSFUL >> >> Total time: 2minutes 32 seconds >> >> >> >> After this, the Ant manual says to change into the installation directory >> set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the directory where JDK is >> installed and execute the command >> >> sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=<directory_to_contain_Ant_distribution> dist >> >> I have Ant in /Applications/ant so I typed >> >> sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=/Applications/ant dist >> >> The result is: >> >> build.sh: build.sh: No such file or directory. >> >> I guess this may seem to be a trivial thing for most of you but it is >> taking the toll on me. I a great believe I would appreciate your advice to >> have Ant built. >> >> >> >> Thanks a lot >> >> >> >> Raul >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Atherton" <br...@callenish.com> >> To: <user@ant.apache.org> >> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:28 PM >> Subject: Re: ANT for dummies >> >> >> As the manual says, the details of the short story are available in the >>> rest of the document. In particular, most of the list items in the short >>> story have a link that leads you to details about that step. If you want to >>> know what dest=system represents (many don't and describing it would just be >>> noise for them), then follow the link on that list item[1]. >>> >>> The fetch.xml has been around a while and has been mentioned in some >>> portions of the Ant documentation, but it has only very recently been >>> brought into the installing Ant section of the manual. Previously, the >>> manual suggested that users manually download each of the library >>> dependencies for tasks that they are interested in. Hopefully the change >>> will make it easier for users to use more of the tasks available. >>> >>> The fetch.xml is in the ANT_HOME directory which should be the current >>> directory. That detail should probably be added to the manual. >>> >>> [1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#optionalTasks >>> >>> On 30/05/2010 5:18 AM, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote: >>> >>>> To install Ant, follow the instructions at >>>> http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing >>>> Bruce had more information on this above. >>>> I did notice that there is an extra step: >>>> >>>> 5. Optionally, run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library >>>> >>>> dependencies of most of the Ant optional tasks. If you don't do this, >>>>> many >>>>> of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional >>>>> Tasks<#optionalTasks> for >>>>> details and other options for the -Ddest parameter. >>>>> >>>>> What is "system"? Is it replaced with the ant home? Or is it a >>>> literal? >>>> Is this step new with 1.8? >>>> Where is the fetch.xml script? >>>> Does current directory need to be set? >>>> <http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing> >>>> --glenn >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > >
