problems getting setup

[Jorg Heymans]

Hi,

I am trying to update the cocoon website, following roughly the
instructions at http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/CocoonWebsiteUpdate. I've
got forrest 0.6 installed, updated path and FORREST_HOME accordingly.


When doing forrest from the root site directory i get :

d:\src\cocoon-siteforrest

Apache Forrest.  Run 'forrest -projecthelp' to list options


Buildfile: d:\tools\apache-forrest-0.6\src\core\forrest.build.xml

init-props:
 [echo] Loading project specific properties from
D:\src\cocoon-site\forrest.
properties
 [echo] Loading user specific properties from C:\Documents and
Settings\heymjo\forrest.properties
 [echo] Loading default properties from
d:\tools\apache-forrest-0.6\src\core
 -emacs -logger
org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger\context\default-forrest.pro
perties
[mkdir] Created dir: D:\src\cocoon-site\${project.temp-dir}
 [echo]
 [echo] -- Warning --
 [echo] Using skin forrest-site which is deprecated.
 [echo] Please migrate to one of the new skins listed in
forrest.properties.
 [echo] The skin that most likely resembles these ones is called 'pelt'.

echo-settings:

check-skin:

fetch-skins-descriptors:

BUILD FAILED
D:\tools\apache-forrest-0.6\src\core\targets\skins.xml:88:
D:\tools\apache-forrest-0.6\src\core -emacs -logger
org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger\context\skins not found.

Total time: 2 seconds


Any pointers ?

Jorg

Re: problems getting setup

[Jorg Heymans]

David Crossley wrote:

 That last 1.5 lines are remnants of the forrest.bat
 shell script that invokes forrest. I wonder if the
 parameters for the call are getting corrupted on
 your system. Sorry, someone else might have ideas.
 

I just found out what was wrong :

i had FORREST_HOME set to d:\tools\forrest\scr\core\ , removing the
trailing backslash made everything work.

I've been bitten by trailing slashes in env variables a few times
before, it always amazes me how they are able to completely wreck good
software and make it display errors nobody has ever seen before.

oh well :(
Jorg