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 8:15 PM, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
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<br...@callenish.com> 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 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(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-138, mixed mode, sharing)
I managed to set the environment variables and got Ant installed. I
executed the command ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library
dependencies. This finished with a message
all:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2minutes 32 seconds
After this, the Ant manual says to change into the installation directory
set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the directory where JDK is
installed and execute the command
sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=<directory_to_contain_Ant_distribution> dist
I have Ant in /Applications/ant so I typed
sh build.sh -Ddist.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
have Ant built.
Thanks a lot
Raul
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Atherton"<br...@callenish.com>
To:<user@ant.apache.org>
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 details about that step. If you want to
know what dest=system represents (many don't and describing it would just be
noise for them), then follow the link on that list item[1].
The fetch.xml has been around a while and has been mentioned in some
portions of the Ant documentation, but it has only very recently been
brought into the installing Ant section of the manual. Previously, the
manual suggested that users manually download each of the library
dependencies for tasks that they are interested in. Hopefully the change
will make it easier for users to use more of the tasks available.
The fetch.xml is in the ANT_HOME directory which should be the current
directory. That detail should probably be added to the manual.
[1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#optionalTasks
On 30/05/2010 5:18 AM, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
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. If you don't do this,
many
of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional
Tasks<#optionalTasks> for
details and other options for the -Ddest parameter.
What is "system"? Is it replaced with the ant home? Or is it a
literal?
Is this step new with 1.8?
Where is the fetch.xml script?
Does current directory need to be set?
<http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing>
--glenn
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