Hi, I tried building the 6.0.x tomcat source. From the installation looks like we had to execute "ant download" and then "ant".
Executing "ant download" completed fine and said build successful. But executing "ant" after it fails with this error: Any idea if some envt variable is messed up ? sudo ant Buildfile: build.xml build-prepare: [delete] Deleting directory /usr/share/tomcat-trunk/output/build/temp [mkdir] Created dir: /usr/share/tomcat-trunk/output/build/temp compile: [javac] Compiling 1058 source files to /usr/share/tomcat-trunk/output/classes BUILD FAILED java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/classpath/Configuration at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.<clinit>(Main.java:66) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:186) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.CompilerAdapterFactory.doesModernCompilerExist(CompilerAdapterFactory.java:145) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.CompilerAdapterFactory.getCompiler(CompilerAdapterFactory.java:100) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:1058) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:882) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:257) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:104) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.classpath.Configuration at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:336) ... 23 more Total time: 1 second Regards, Bharath