If you read that section again, you'll see that these are the steps for
someone building Ant from source code. You are not doing that, so you
can ignore it.
On 30/05/2010 2:31 PM, Raul Miranda wrote:
Dear Bruce and Glenn,
Thank you very much for your answers. I want to install the 1.8.1
version of Ant in Mac OS X version 10.4.11. Running java -version in
a terminal gives
"java version 1.5.0_19"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-138, mixed mode, sharing)
I managed to set the environment variables and got Ant installed. I
executed the command ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library
dependencies. This finished with a message
all:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2minutes 32 seconds
After this, the Ant manual says to change into the installation
directory set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the directory
where JDK is installed and execute the command
sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=<directory_to_contain_Ant_distribution> dist
I have Ant in /Applications/ant so I typed
sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=/Applications/ant dist
The result is:
build.sh: build.sh: No such file or directory.
I guess this may seem to be a trivial thing for most of you but it is
taking the toll on me. I a great believe I would appreciate your
advice to have Ant built.
Thanks a lot
Raul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Atherton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: ANT for dummies
As the manual says, the details of the short story are available in
the rest of the document. In particular, most of the list items in
the short story have a link that leads you to details about that
step. If you want to know what dest=system represents (many don't and
describing it would just be noise for them), then follow the link on
that list item[1].
The fetch.xml has been around a while and has been mentioned in some
portions of the Ant documentation, but it has only very recently been
brought into the installing Ant section of the manual. Previously,
the manual suggested that users manually download each of the library
dependencies for tasks that they are interested in. Hopefully the
change will make it easier for users to use more of the tasks available.
The fetch.xml is in the ANT_HOME directory which should be the
current directory. That detail should probably be added to the manual.
[1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#optionalTasks
On 30/05/2010 5:18 AM, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
To install Ant, follow the instructions at
http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing
Bruce had more information on this above.
I did notice that there is an extra step:
5. Optionally, run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library
dependencies of most of the Ant optional tasks. If you don't do
this, many
of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional
Tasks<#optionalTasks> for
details and other options for the -Ddest parameter.
What is "system"? Is it replaced with the ant home? Or is it a
literal?
Is this step new with 1.8?
Where is the fetch.xml script?
Does current directory need to be set?
<http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing>
--glenn
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