Author: bodewig Date: Tue Aug 18 11:35:11 2009 New Revision: 805369 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=805369&view=rev Log: document chmod.fail property. PR 22500
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html?rev=805369&r1=805368&r2=805369&view=diff ============================================================================== --- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html (original) +++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html Tue Aug 18 11:35:11 2009 @@ -679,6 +679,17 @@ <code>install-lite</code> targets will overwrite the current Ant version in <code>ANT_HOME</code>.</p> +<p>Ant's build script will try to set executable flags for its shell + scripts on Unix-like systems. There are various reasons why the + chmod-task might fail (like when you are running the build script as + a different user than the one who installed Ant initially). In this + case you can set the Ant property <code>chmod.fail</code> to false + when starting the build like in +<blockquote> + <p><code>sh build.sh install -Dchmod.fail=false</code></p> +</blockquote> +and any error to change permission will not result in a build failure.</p> + <hr> <h2><a name="librarydependencies">Library Dependencies</a></h2> <p>The following libraries are needed in Ant's classpath