Re: [mdr-users] MDR Installation Issues

Ok, the build finally was "Successful", using the steps below.  Note the 
-P on the cvs checkout command.  Running what you suggested without the 
-P gave me a "Build Failed" with an error about an existing javahelp 
directory, and it told me that I needed to use -P to avoid checking out 
empty directories. The exact error is long lost in the scrollback on my 
shell, though.  I'm guessing this could be related to the fact that it 
was partially built, so I deleted everything, and tried again from the 
start, with the -P option.

.../mdrsources$ CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvs
.../mdrsources$ export CVSROOT
.../mdrsources$ cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:[email protected]:2401/cvs
CVS password:
.../mdrsources$ cvs checkout -P standard_nowww apisupport_nowww mdr_nowww
.../mdrsources$ cd nbbuild
.../mdrsources/nbbuild$ ant build-nozip
.../mdrsources/nbbuild$ cd ../mdr
.../mdrsources/mdr$ ant download

So, as I said, the builds completed "successfully", but I'm not 
convinced that MDR is installed properly.  I understand now that it is 
supposed to be included on netbeans 4.0+, but after looking at the 
instructions for using MDR, it seems that access is entirely through the 
View menu.  Neither installation (Netbeans 4.1 or the build that just 
completed) has anything related to MDR on the View menu.

The View menu options common to both installations are: Editors, Code 
Folds, Web Browser, Documentation Indices, Show Line Numbers, Show 
Editor Toolbars.  The Nebeans 4.1 installation also has a "Class Details 
View" option.  The instructions for using MDR also refer to 
Tools/Options/MDR, which is not there on either one of these installations.

What am I missing?
Thanks,
Kristina

Martin Matula wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Kristina Hildebrand wrote:
>
>> > What version of NetBeans are you using?
>>
>> Version 4.1.  I just downloaded and installed it, before trying to 
>> install MDR.  I have installed all of the latest updates from the 
>> default update sites, just in case I was missing something important, 
>> but that didn't help.  This is exactly what I've entered for 
>> "NetBeans Update Center Alpha": 
>> http://www.netbeans.org/updates/alpha/36_{$netbeans.autoupdate.version}_{$netbeans.autoupdate.regnum}.xml?{$netbeans.hash.code} 
>>
>> It appears to try to connect, then comes up with the error I 
>> mentioned in my last message.
>
>
> As stated in the installation instructions, installing the MDR from 
> update center is applicable to NB older than 4.0 (i.e. 3.5, 3.5.1 or 
> 3.6).
>
>>
>> > The build system was changed just recently
>> > (this week) and ant all-mdr no longer works. Now you have to use "ant
>> > init all-mdr/module". I will update the instructions.
>>
>> This still doesn't work for me, though it gets a lot farther.  I end 
>> up with 100 compile errors, mostly within classes in 
>> org.netbeans.lib.jmi.  The problems all seem to be related to failing 
>> on the javax.jmi.model.* import.  Is there a .jar I'm missing?
>
>
> Hm. It seems I will have to change the instructions to build the whole 
> NetBeans first (the new build infrastructure generates some ant 
> targets automatically and it is not straightforward what the correct 
> steps are). So, try "ant build-nozip" in nbbuild directory and then 
> "ant download" in mdr directory.
> Martin