Lars Bahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as it happens I am working packageing openantivirus's ScannerDaemon. It > is a .jar file and seems to work well. Now with the packageing I assume > I have to create the .jar-file from the Java sources due to Debian > Standards. Problems is I have no idea how to go about this. > > There is a file ``build.xml'' which seems to be the equivalent of a > makefile, but, alas, I have no idea how to invoke this.
build.xml is related to ant, a jakarta project to build java projects: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant But you can apt-get it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show ant Package: ant Priority: optional Section: contrib/devel Installed-Size: 2500 Maintainer: Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.4.1-1 Depends: java-virtual-machine, libxerces-java (>= 1.3.0-1) Suggests: jython, libbsf-java, liboro-java, libxalan2-java, junit, antlr, liblog4j, libregexp-java Filename: pool/contrib/a/ant/ant_1.4.1-1_all.deb Size: 1270120 MD5sum: f5f9b0eeff1c9e1454ef9b5d46264a22 Description: Java based build tool like make A system independent (i.e. not shell based) build tool that uses XML files as "Makefiles". . For more information see http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html. -- Arnaud http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/