Well the readme said it may fail on mac osx because it tries to write to /usr/share/java to store the libraries etc.
When I ran ant, the build didn't work, running sudo allowed it continue (but from now on running just ant w/o sudo is fine, I guess it was just initially to write to that folder). Anyhow, I'll try the svn then thanks. On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2012/1/9 S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com>: > > 2. sudo ant > > Just curious regarding the above command: you do not need root rights > to build Tomcat! > > Actually you should never be using root rights when building, testing > and using Tomcat. > > (The only exception is running it with jsvc service wrapper). > > http://xkcd.com/149/ > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >