Is that the only error you're getting? What does the build log say? Sent from my iPad
> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Michael Durket <dur...@highwire.stanford.edu> > wrote: > > I'm attempting to build Ant 1.9.3 from the source distribution on Redhat > Linux 5 using Oracle Java 1.7.0. It seems to build correctly but fails the > post-build tests with this error message: > > error: package org.junit does not exist. > > From my research, this seems to be a common issue in general with Ant. > > Here are the exact directions I followed (from this page > http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#buildingant): > > "As of version 1.7.0 Ant has a hard dependency on JUnit. The fetch.xml build > script will download JUnit automatically, but if you don't use this you must > install it manually into lib/optional (download it from JUnit.org) if you are > using a source distribution of Ant." > > Since I don't have an ant that works with fetch.xml, I went to JUnit.org as > indicated in the instructions and downloaded junit.jar and copied the file to > apache-ant-1.9.3/lib/optional. > > Given that the instructions for building Ant are incorrect, could you please > post the correct instructions to your website so I could build the current > version of Ant please? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
