Re: [jruby-user] Re: How to build from source?

yes, the tar,gz and zip have identical content ;)

if you just run
mvn clean package
that is enough to setup the lib directory.

the rspec gem and htmldiff gem comes from
mvn -Pbootstrap
and they will NOT be cleaned with mvn clean !

but a fresh clone and not using that bootstrap will keep the
lib/ruby/gems/shared/gems
empty !

jruby currently has 8 default gems, i.e. their specifications will be
in lib/ruby/gems/shared/specifications/default
and the content of those gems is basically copied into lib/ruby/gems/shared

those gems will be downloaded by maven from
http://rubygems-proxy.torquebox.org/releases

these default gems are part of jruby-complete, jruby-stdlib and jruby-dist
and they are needed for jruby itself.