well I got the same error. I think I will have follow Chucks advice when I have a little more time. I will let you know how it all went
then thing is that while using the 1.6 version that comes with knoppix I was getting other kinds of errors relation to ant, so I will have to install 1.6 from sun locally first lbrtchx # ant clean clean-depend Buildfile: /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22-src/build.xml clean: [delete] Deleting directory /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22-src/output [delete] Deleting: /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22-src/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/catalina.properties clean: [mkdir] Created dir: /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22-src/modules/jdbc-pool/output [delete] Deleting: /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22-src/webapps/docs/jdbc-pool.xml clean-depend: [delete] Deleting directory /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22/tomcat7-deps/dbcp BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds # ant download-compile ... BUILD FAILED /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22-src/build.xml:2211: The following error occurred while executing this line: /media/sda7/inst/java/jars/j2ee/servlets/apache-tomcat-7.0.22-src/build.xml:2313: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details. Total time: 4 seconds # --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org