Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-31 Thread Raul Miranda
Atherton" To: Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 1:27 AM Subject: Re: ANT for dummies 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

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-30 Thread Bruce Atherton
From: "Bruce Atherton" To: Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:28 PM Subject: Re: ANT for dummies 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

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-30 Thread glenn opdycke-hansen
dist.dir=/Applications/ant dist >> >> The result is: >> >> build.sh: build.sh: No such file or directory. >> >> I guess this may seem to be a trivial thing for most of you but it is >> taking the toll on me. I a great believe I would appreciate your advice to >

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-30 Thread Bruce Atherton
s this may seem to be a trivial thing for most of you but it is taking the toll on me. I a great believe I would appreciate your advice to have Ant built. Thanks a lot Raul - Original Message - From: "Bruce Atherton" To: Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:28 PM Subject:

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-30 Thread Raul Miranda
From: "Bruce Atherton" To: Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:28 PM Subject: Re: ANT for dummies 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 det

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-30 Thread Bruce Atherton
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

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-30 Thread glenn opdycke-hansen
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.

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-30 Thread wolfgang haefelinger
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

Re: ANT for dummies

2010-05-29 Thread Bruce Atherton
There are instructions on the Install page for how you set those environmental variables[1][2][3], at least within a command shell. If you want to set them up to be available across all command shells, then that will depend on your operating system. You don't tell us which operating system you

ANT for dummies

2010-05-28 Thread miranda raul
Hi, First of all, I have to say that I am a not versed in computers. I need to install and run a program called NESTEDMICA that requires ANT. The problem is... How in heaven can I install ANT?  Just to get you an idea where my difficulties started, I couldn't set the environmental variables JAVA