svn worked fine. Sorry about this, but I'm new to Eclipse kinda.
So I when to file, import, general | existing projects into workspace. Now which is the root folder in the source? On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 6:44 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >