Agreed. The file was building.txt not readme sorry, thanks for the tips.
So any help on importing the project into eclipse? On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2012/1/9 S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com>: > > Well the readme said it may fail on mac osx because it tries to write to > > /usr/share/java to store the libraries etc. > > Eh, which readme? > It is a bad idea to let them been written to /usr/share/java. That is > just a default value. > > You should really reconfigure it to use some other place (as > documented in BUILDING.txt). > > You should not run any random things with "sudo", unless you > understand the consequences. > > > > > 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 > >
