Christopher Randall wrote:
I just downloaded the iText 1.4 SRC zip file, and was planning on
building the jar file from source since the execution environment
we're running in uses JDK 1.3.
I expected to be able to run "ant jar" and have the resulting JAR file
immediately available. Apparently, there is an undocumented
requirement to have a structure two directories up with "www" and
"src". Haven't had the opportunity to research that would fix it, just
got really frustrated. A common problem with open source projects is
assuming all your users are geeky developer types that have a
pre-configured development environment. I'm a configuration manager
and don't give a rip about your CVS server environment. I just want to
BUILD FROM THE SOURCE!
Why do I need to have the simulated CVS environment available to build
the RELEASED version of the code? I should be able to build without
any modification WHATSOEVER using Ant and the file structure created
after unzipping the ZIP file.
I create a directory for iText, for instance
$HOME/itext
Then I unzip the src.tar.gz in a subdirectory src:
$HOME/itext/src/
The following subdirectories appear:
$HOME/itext/src/ant
$HOME/itext/src/com
$HOME/itext/src/META-INF
The main build.xml is also in directory $HOME/itext/src/
So you can execute ANT after doing cd $HOME/itext/src/
A new directory will be created: $HOME/itext/build/
For some ant targets you will also need
$HOME/itext/www/
This www directory contains resources for building the site
and the tutorial. I think this way of working is standard on
some Linux distributions. Of course, every flavor has its own
'standard' (I'm thinking about the trouble I had recently to
build iText using Maven).
br,
Bruno
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