> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] 
> Subject: Re: Compiling Tomcat 6.0.x trunk

> I suspect you are an administrator on your box, so writing 
> files to C:\usr\share\java shouldn't be a problem :)

There's nothing special about C:\usr - it's not a Windows-created directory 
(and not to be confused with C:\Users).

> > I seem to recall that Tomcat 7 now requires ant 1.8; I wonder 
> > if the 6.0 trunk does also?

> No, TC 6 only requires ant 1.6 (at least, that's what 
> BUILDING.txt says).

Yes, it's the TC 7 docs that require 1.8.1 or later (svn revision 984978):
http://markmail.org/message/n23mjjknmzu24jnh

> If "compile" requires some other target first, why doesn't 
> it do so explicitly?

The build-prepare target is only intended to be run once, as part of the 
initialization.  It of course could be made smarter to detect if it already has 
been run, but the additional complexity really isn't needed.

 - Chuck


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