Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > > > But offhand I'd guess perhaps you're setting JAVA_ROOT to java 1.6, which > generally breaks ant & tomcat. Makefile.master forces 1.5 for this reason > (porting to 1.6 doesn't seem to be interesting yet apparently). > > > After a couple of tries I figured it was ANT_HOME that was causing the > installation to try to write into a non-writable directory. > The Makefile.sfw for ant seems to be free from popular java variables, > except for a place where ANT_HOME is used directly from the environment :-( > So it builds fine now . . .
Could you file a bug.. the build shouldn't allow fairly common env variables to pollute the build environment like that, causing so many days of confusion as you've experienced. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
