Re: [CVS] How to compile Avalon/Excalibur (Bug in build system?)

Can someone take out time from the new bike sheds and courts of law to fix 
this?

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:34, Peter Donald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like 1, 2 and 3 are bugs in build system. Thanks for telling us -
> could someone fix these up?
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:58, Olaf Bergner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I solved my problems, having successfully compiled Excalibur. Just a few
> > hints for people having similar problems (or am I the only one who is
> > that stupid?):
> >
> > 1) In the top-level ant.properties(.sample) file the version numbers of
> > the Xerces and Xalan jar files have to be updated to the ones found under
> > jakarta-avalon/tools/lib.
> >
> > 2) The property avalon.framework.home has to be changed from
> > (...)/jakarta-avalon/build/lib to (...)/jakarta-avalon/target/lib.
> >
> > 3) Using ant 1.5.1 I got an error complaining about an incorrect
> > "zipgroupfileset" element nested in a jar task that is part of the
> > "build.xml" under (...)/fortress. I changed it to "zipfileset", ommitting
> > the "group" part only to get a complaint about the "destfile" attribute.
> > Though the ant docs state that "destfile" is supported, I changed it to
> > "jarfile" and it worked like a charm.
> >
> > [4) I found out that - at least under Windows - you cannot use symbolic
> > links in ant.properties files :( ]
> >
> > Items 2 and 3 might hint at possible bugs in the build system though I am
> > not sure how much of it might be ant version dependant.
> >
> > Anyways, thanks for a great framework,
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Olaf Bergner [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 17:26
> > > An: Avalon User List
> > > Betreff: [CVS] How to compile Avalon/Excalibur
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have been quietly following discussions on this list for a few weeks,
> > > striving to port a little pet app of mine to (preferably) Fortress.
> > > Recognizing that the whole Avalon/Excalibur project seems to undergo a
> > > complete overhaul (or should this be a permanent situation?;)) I
> > > decided on
> > > fetching the sources via CVS, the more so since Fortress/Merlin
> > > are not yet
> > > released.
> > > Unfortunately, I got stuck while trying to compile
> > > "jakarta-avalon-excalibur". I am not a Java expert, much less an
> > > ant expert
> > > but I understand that the ant scripts that come with the sources seem
> > > to assume a certain directory layout for additionally needed packages
> > > etc. I have gambled a bit with the ant.properties file but until now to
> > > no avail. The java compiler keeps complaining about missing class
> > > definitions, most notably those pertaining to the *.extension.*
> > > package. What I did was creating a top-level directory "CVS-Modules"
> > > and checking out
> > > jakarta-avalon, jakarta-avalon-excalibur and
> > > jakarta-avalon-logkit into it,
> > > so as to have all required sources neatly combined under one common
> > > directory. But this failed to work out as expected.
> > > So I would like to know whether there is a better directory layout, or
> > > how to adapt the ant.properties file so as to compile Excalibur?
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> > >
> > > Olaf
> > >
> > > Olaf Bergner
> > >
> > >
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Cheers,

Peter Donald
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