Re: Build from source: add JAVA_HOME/bin to Path

2012-06-07 Thread Carol Frampton
I'll do something about this. I think the bit about adding to PATH might have gotten lost somewhere along the way. I'm pretty sure that used to be documented. Carol On 6/7/12 5 :01AM, "Dirk Eismann" wrote: >I just gave compiling from source a try and it went through to the >point where the Ba

Re: Build from source: add JAVA_HOME/bin to Path

2012-06-07 Thread Dirk Eismann
> Another option would be to always use absolute paths in the build > scripts, e.g. instead of > >   > > use > >   third option would be to use Ant's task instead of using of course (and that does not require to have Java's /bin on the PATH at all IIRC) Dirk.

Build from source: add JAVA_HOME/bin to Path

2012-06-07 Thread Dirk Eismann
I just gave compiling from source a try and it went through to the point where the Batik jar gets compiled and packaged - there Ant exited with an error. The reason was that the "jar" program was not known to the system which was due to the fact that JAVA_HOME/bin was not on the search path. This w