I assume either the FOP developers know why there's a circular reference and have the resolution or they just use the compiled jars and ignore the issue. Starting with the compiled ant.jar which comes with the Eclipse download resolved the issue even though it didn't answer the question. Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: mehdi houshmand [mailto:med1...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:23 AM To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Hi Eric, Well, that kind of depends on how you work. It's always good to have the source at hand if you want to look, but realistically, you're never going to delve into the ant code. If you want further help, could you post on the ant forums, this isn't a FOP issue. Sorry if not helped, Mehdi On 19 July 2011 16:09, Eric Douglas <edoug...@blockhouse.com> wrote: > I've tried to reference a source project rather than a compiled jar > wherever possible. > The annoying part of referencing the compiled jar is when I run from > the IDE in debug mode and it pops up windows saying no code attached. > Plus I thought it made more sense to have the source for everything > open sourced in case there's any reusable code or any confusion on > what the methods do. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benson Margulies [mailto:bimargul...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:49 AM > To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org > Subject: Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? > > 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. >> >
