On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 16:29, J.Pietschmann <j3322...@yahoo.de> wrote: > On 23.06.2010 18:08, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> I'm trying to understand how the distributable packages on the fop >> download site are assembled, by hand or by script? If by script, ... > It's the build.xml file. You'll need ant (http://ant.apache.org) to > run it, the target "dist" will generate tgz and zip archives for
Thanks, I forgot about listing all the ant build targets (duh)! > both a binary and a source package. It will not generate a package > which can be used by the Ubuntu package system. Okay, but at least should be able to be "installed" (i.e., unpacked) into some directory and it should work if the "fop" start-up script can be found on one's path. Thanks for everyone's patience--consider this thread closed. -Tom