RE: Updating ant to fix build failure

Dear Glenn,

On 2016-12-20 Glenn Adams wrote:
> On 2016-12-20 Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >
> > could anybody update the Ant (currently 1.6.5) used 
> > in build.bat?
> > ... 
> >
> > It was already reported with a proposed fix:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BATIK-1141
> 
> Implemented using 1.9.7. Please verify.

thanks for a quick fix, yes, it works.

> I don't use build.bat

What is the official build procedure? I've tried it with Maven, but I was only able to build all module jars at once, but not to create 'apps'.

In the current build.bat there is also missing any support for specifying target Java version, so building produces jars incompatible with JDK 7.

Moreover, in that BATIK-1141 issue there is mentioned build.sh, which is not part of SVN any more. How Batik can be built on Linux?

In sum, I am missing a single page on the Batik project website dedicated to Building from sources, something like this
https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.1/compiling.html

Thanks,

Jan