Re: [T4] Build Frustration

2001-09-18 Thread Punky Tse
> > The current build system has gotten to be a mess (again) in the last few > months. > Jon, I worked very hard every few days in this month to make my TC4 built successfully May be I was the one who found more frustrated than you. Although I see that there are active changes to the build sy

Re: [T4] Build Frustration

2001-09-18 Thread Sam Ruby
> [ ] A: Leave the build system as is > [ ] B: Make as many libraries as possible optional > [ ] C: Provide both, as discussed above; I'll volunteer to implement it (but > of course, others can help) I vote for B, and am willing to help with the coding/testing. I would suggest that B be ammende

Re: [T4] Build Frustration

2001-09-17 Thread Jon Stevens
on 9/17/01 9:25 PM, "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My main concern is that the current build system will definitely scare away > the casual contributor (who usually submits one or two patches to fix the > bug / problem he found, or add one or two features). Yet, having bug reports

Re: [T4] Build Frustration

2001-09-17 Thread Remy Maucherat
> It frustrates me to no end that building Tomcat 4 is dependent on Sun .jar > files that require a registration in order to download. I was about complain, but I didn't want to tweak too much the build system just before the final release. Since both sides have a point (for the record, I'm on t

[T4] Build Frustration

2001-09-17 Thread Jon Stevens
It frustrates me to no end that building Tomcat 4 is dependent on Sun .jar files that require a registration in order to download. BUILD FAILED /Users/jon/checkout/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/catalina/build.xml:117: Could not find file /Users/jon/checkout/jndi-1.2.1/lib/ldap.jar to copy. At least one of