That must have been it. I guntarred a fresh source tree and was able to build ant on Solaris 10 SPARC. I had to go find junit before it would build. I thought that was optional but apparently not, or at least not with just taking the defaults.
Thanks Now on to the dependency hell of building the latest tomcat . . . On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2010-04-02, J. Joseph Felten <jjfel...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> -bash-3.00$ ./build.sh >> ... Bootstrapping Ant Distribution >> rm: Unable to remove directory build/classes: Permission denied > > sounds suspicious. Why is that? > >> ... Compiling Ant Classes >> src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/AbstractFileSet.java:52: cannot find >> symbol >> symbol : class ModifiedSelector >> location: package org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors.modifiedselector >> import >> org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors.modifiedselector.ModifiedSelector; >> ^ > > you should have a file > src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/modifiedselector/ModifiedSelector.java > is it there? If not, it is a pretty long path, probably one of the > files you are missing if you use our tar archive and extract it with > anything other than GNU tar. From the download page: > > ,---- > | Ant is distributed as zip, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives - the contents > | are the same. Please note that the tar.* archives contain file names > | longer than 100 characters and have been created using GNU tar > | extensions. Thus they must be untarred with a GNU compatible version of > | tar. > `---- > > Unless you have GNU tar around you better use the ZIP file (jar should > be able to extract them): <http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#no-gnu-tar> > > If this is not the issue, what do your JAVA_HOME, ANT_HOME and CLASSPATH > env variables look like (if they are set at all) and is there anything > in $HOME/.ant/ ? > > Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
