You aren't stating very clearly the steps you are using. I hope you
are checking out the source from subversion. One thing that is
pretty much essential is to run
maven m:co
to check out openejb source code: it is very difficult to build
geronimo using openejb binaries.
After checking out geronimo and openejb,
maven new
should build everything. I haven't tried with an empty maven repo
recently, but I have occasionally in the past, and while it usually
takes a long time I have not experienced frequent failures. If you
look at the mailing lists you can see that may people are having
problems downloading dependencies from ibiblio etc.
Trying lots of times seems to help some people. If you run into a
problem that is not ibiblio being flaky, be sure to post it:
otherwise more specific info might help anway.
thanks
david jencks
On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:32 PM, William B. Zimmerly wrote:
Dear Apache Geronimo Group,
I was contracted by IBM to write a series of articles on Apache
Geronimo, but I am still having *nothing but trouble* in building
Geronimo
from sources.
Every time that I try to build the project with "maven", "maven
new", or
countless other maven commands like "maven m:clean m:clean-repo
new", it
fails to build from source.
Errors that I have seen are "302 Errors" where modules the system
is attempting to download are not where it expects them to be, errors
that there are "goals" that cannot be fulfilled for various reasons.
*** HAS ANYONE SUCCESSFULLY DOWNLOADED AND BUILT GERONIMO FROM
THE FOLLOWING SOURCES? ***
geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1.0.tar.gz
maven-1.1-beta-2.tar.gz
subversion-1.3.2.tar.gz
j2sdk-1_4_2_11-nb-5_0-linux.bin
If my sources are incorrect, would someone please tell me what sources
can be downloaded that will build Geronimo successfully?
My tests of binary installs work fine -- but my article is about
building from sources too, and so far, it has been a very
disappointing
experience. What can be done about this problem? Not being one of
the authors of the Apache Geronimo system -- without having an
intimate
knowledge of the system -- what can I do?
I have a Friday, June 30th deadline on my article and after trying
to do
so for over a week, I have yet to be able to build this system. I
am now
seeking help to know what the secret to building a Geronimo system is.
Please help ... soon!
Sincerely,
Bill
