building avalon from cvs

Hi peeps,

building all of avalon from CVS is tricky. I found lots of problems and 
'fixed' quite a few (most things I did should really be considered 
temperorary hacks till we get maven or centipede running). I was able to 
build a lot of stuff from cvs on cygwin on win2k, with ant 1.5.1 
installed and in the path, with the latest stable junit.jar in the ant 
lib/ directory, using the following set of commands (disclaimer: there 
could be typos):

cvs -d [email protected]:/home/cvs co jakarta-avalon \
jakarta-avalon-excalibur jakarta-avalon-cornerstone \ 
jakarta-avalon-logkit jakarta-avalon-phoenix jakarta-avalon-site \ 
jakarta-site jakarta-oro avalon-sandbox

cd jakarta-avalon-excalibur/loader
cp ant.properties.sample ant.properties
cd ../../jakarta-oro
ant
cd ../jakarta-avalon
ant
cd ../jakarta-avalon-logkit
ant
cd ../jakarta-avalon-excalibur/extension
ant

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note there's some issues with loader/extension. Probably a dependency 
that needs adding; not quite clear to me (feel free to call me anything 
ranging from 'fat little vegetable' to 'mildly unclean sock'). It is 
also a bit cumbersome to have to check out jakarta-oro to build loader.

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cd ..
ant

this got me lots of warnings about missing jars 'n stuff, but it built.

cd ../jakarta-avalon-cornerstone
ant
cd ../../jakarta-avalon-phoenix
ant get-mx4j
ant
cd ../../jakarta-avalon-apps/db
ant
cd ../demo
ant
cd ../enterprise
ant all

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this failed! Didn't feel like fixing as enterprise is stale anyway and 
not used in gump. Steve, can you fix this or move enterprise elsewhere 
(hint hint :D)?

prepare:
     [mkdir] Created dir: 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\enterprise\ins\build\ins\src
     [mkdir] Created dir: 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\enterprise\ins\build\ext\src
     [mkdir] Created dir: 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\enterprise\ins\build\pss\src
     [mkdir] Created dir: 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\enterprise\ins\build\lib
     [mkdir] Created dir: 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\enterprise\ins\dist

context:

ins.idl:

BUILD FAILED
file:F:/src/cvs/jakarta/jakarta-avalon-apps/enterprise/ins/build.xml:156: 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\enterpr
ise\orb\dist not found.

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cd ../ftpserver
ant
cd ../hsql
ant
cd ../httpproxy
ant
cd ../infomover
ant

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this failed too! Berin, what's the infomover status?

compile:
     [mkdir] Created dir: 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\infomover\build\classes
     [javac] Compiling 29 source files to 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\infomover\build\classes
     [javac] 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\infomover\src\java\org\apache\infomover\manipulator\Normalizer.java:1
51: cannot resolve symbol
     [javac] symbol  : variable rec
     [javac] location: class org.apache.infomover.manipulator.Normalizer
     [javac]             trans.removeRecord( rec );
     [javac]                                 ^
     [javac] 
F:\src\cvs\jakarta\jakarta-avalon-apps\infomover\src\java\org\apache\infomover\manipulator\Normalizer.java:1
70: rec is already defined in 
processRecord(org.apache.infomover.transaction.Transaction,org.apache.infomover.transactio
n.Record)
     [javac]             Record rec = new Record( m_destTable, (add) ? 
Record.ADD : Record.DELETE );
     [javac]                    ^
     [javac] 2 errors

BUILD FAILED
file:f:/src/cvs/jakarta/jakarta-avalon-apps/infomover/build.xml:110: 
Compile failed; see the compiler error output for d
etails.

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cd ../overlord
ant
cd ../phyre
ant
cd ../sevak
ant
cd ../simpleserver
ant
cd ../xcommander
ant

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Clearly, lots of stuff is not in gump while it should be. Also, we've 
got references to various jars hardcoded in many places (look at my cvs 
commits for an impression ;). A central repo like used by maven would be 
handy dandy :D

Also, phoenix depends on info, which is in sandbox.

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and see if gump builds 
tonight....if it does I'll be trying building stuff under linux and 
figuring out the excalibur dependency issue if no-one beats me to it. 
Then again I might do something 'bout my study :D

g'night all,

- Leo