If you look at the thread below, you'll see my comment about building
from source was in response to Raul's attempt to use "sh build.sh".
Using fetch.xml is recommended for all users that want access to the
full set of tasks delivered with Ant (saving the ones that require
commercial software).
On 30/05/2010 11:27 AM, Bruce Atherton wrote:
I realized that I screwed up two ways with this answer. First, my
intention was 'resultproperty="${result}"' rather than as written. But
this won't work either because the PropertyHelper will just give back
the literal string when the setter is c
Thank you for the additional information. I read the section "The Short
Story" which had the item 5 that I quoted above. I see that this section
did not refer to building Ant from source. Perhaps item 5 should not be
included there.
--glenn
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 19:27, Bruce Atherton wrote
If you read that section again, you'll see that these are the steps for
someone building Ant from source code. You are not doing that, so you
can ignore it.
On 30/05/2010 2:31 PM, Raul Miranda wrote:
Dear Bruce and Glenn,
Thank you very much for your answers. I want to install the 1.8.1
ve
Dear Bruce and Glenn,
Thank you very much for your answers. I want to install the 1.8.1 version of
Ant in Mac OS X version 10.4.11. Running java -version in a terminal gives
"java version 1.5.0_19"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306)
Java HotSpot(T
As the manual says, the details of the short story are available in the
rest of the document. In particular, most of the list items in the short
story have a link that leads you to details about that step. If you want
to know what dest=system represents (many don't and describing it would
just
On 27/05/2010 2:04 AM, jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de wrote:
Please have a look at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/sandbox/autoconf/
Maybe that could help.
But he still has a call to the setter even if it is autoconfed.
Note that setting spawn and resultproperty are mutually exclusive. If
To install Ant, follow the instructions at
http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing
Bruce had more information on this above.
I did notice that there is an extra step:
5. Optionally, run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library
> dependencies of most of the Ant optional tasks.
Bruce,
>> How in heaven can I install ANT?
How in heaven is it possible to make a Phd which such a little
"willingness-to-dig-into-something-new"?
>> Hopefully, someone is able and willing to sit for a good while and write
a detailed procedure to get this done.
You are the perfect candidate to
