Eric, Unless you are working on Gentoo Linux, you should not even consider this path. Just download ant. Ant, being a build tool, has a complex bootstrap process. ant.apache.org will provide you with a zip file with a perfectly working copy of Ant you can use.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Eric Douglas <edoug...@blockhouse.com> wrote: > The circular referencing doesn't make sense, but I'm compiling in > Eclipse Helios on Windows XP. > I found that Eclipse does come with an ant folder under it's plugin path > so I started with the ant.jar from there. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mehdi houshmand [mailto:med1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:08 AM > To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org > Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? > > Hi Eric, > > What operating system are you working on? You probably don't need to > compile ant, there will almost definitely be binaries for your operating > system. > > Mehdi > > On 19 July 2011 13:58, Eric Douglas <edoug...@blockhouse.com> wrote: >> If I try to compile fop source it says it requires ant. >> If I download the source for ant and try to compile it says it > requires bsf. >> If I download the source for bsf and try to compile it says it >> requires jython. >> If I download the source for jython and try to compile it says it >> requires ant. >
