Your apache ant install is too old. The ant that comes with rhel/centos 5.X isn't new enough to build cassandra. You will need to install ant manually.
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Konstantin Naryshkin <konstant...@a-bb.net> wrote: > I want to create a custom RPM of Cassandra (so I can deploy it > pre-configured). There is an RPM in the source tree, but it does not contain > any details of the setup required to create the RPM (what files should I > have where). I have tried to run rpmbuild -bi on the spec file and I am > getting the following error: > > /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/apache-cassandra-0.8.0-beta1-src/build.xml:187: name, > file or resource attribute of typedef is undefined > > In case you were wondering what line 187 is, it is part of the > maven-ant-tasks-init target and is: > <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant" > classpathref="maven-ant-tasks.classpath" /> >