Author: peterreilly
Date: Fri Sep 29 15:49:08 2006
New Revision: 451487
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=451487
Log:
add a comment about /etc/ant.conf and about quotes and / in ANT_HOME,CLASSPATH
and JAVA_HOME
Modified:
ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html
Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html?view=diff&rev=451487&r1=451486&r2=451487
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--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/install.html Fri Sep 29 15:49:08 2006
@@ -211,6 +211,50 @@
directory is intended for JDK extensions. In particular there are security
restrictions on the classes which may be loaded by an extension.</p>
+<table width="80%">
+<tr>
+ <td colspan="2">
+ <b>Windows Note:</b>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td width="5%"> </td>
+ <td>
+ The ant.bat script makes use of three environment variables -
+ ANT_HOME, CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME. <b>Ensure</b> that if
+ these variables are set, they do <b><u>not</u></b> have quotes (either
+ ' or ") and they do <b><u>not</u></b> end with \ or with /.
+ </td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<table width="80%">
+<tr>
+ <td colspan="2">
+ <b>Linux Note:</b>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td width="5%"> </td>
+ <td>
+ A jpackage rpm version of ant may be installed on your machine,
+ say as part of install of Fedora Core 3. If another version
+ of ant is installed, the rpm version <b><u>will</u></b> take
+ priority. This is due to the fact that ant bash script file
+ dot includes the /etc/ant.conf file from the jpackage distribution.
+ The current version of this file (sept 2006) overwrites the
+ ANT_HOME environment variable. If this happens, ant will
+ issue a warning. To fix this, modify the line in /etc/ant.conf
+ <br/>
+ <code>ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant</code>
+ <br/>
+ to be
+ <br/>
+ <code>ANT_HOME=${ANT_HOME:-/usr/share/ant}</code>.
+ </td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
<h3><a name="optionalTasks">Optional Tasks</a></h3>
<p>Ant supports a number of optional tasks. An optional task is a task which
typically requires an external library to function. The optional tasks are
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