Dear Bruce and Glenn,
Thank you very much for your answers. I want to install the 1.8.1 version of
Ant in Mac OS X version 10.4.11. Running java -version in a terminal gives
"java version 1.5.0_19"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-138, mixed mode, sharing)
I managed to set the environment variables and got Ant installed. I
executed the command ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library
dependencies. This finished with a message
all:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2minutes 32 seconds
After this, the Ant manual says to change into the installation directory
set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the directory where JDK is
installed and execute the command
sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=<directory_to_contain_Ant_distribution> dist
I have Ant in /Applications/ant so I typed
sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=/Applications/ant dist
The result is:
build.sh: build.sh: No such file or directory.
I guess this may seem to be a trivial thing for most of you but it is taking
the toll on me. I a great believe I would appreciate your advice to have
Ant built.
Thanks a lot
Raul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Atherton" <bruce@callenish.com>
To: <user@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: ANT for dummies
> As the manual says, the details of the short story are available in the
> rest of the document. In particular, most of the list items in the short
> story have a link that leads you to details about that step. If you want
> to know what dest=system represents (many don't and describing it would
> just be noise for them), then follow the link on that list item[1].
>
> The fetch.xml has been around a while and has been mentioned in some
> portions of the Ant documentation, but it has only very recently been
> brought into the installing Ant section of the manual. Previously, the
> manual suggested that users manually download each of the library
> dependencies for tasks that they are interested in. Hopefully the change
> will make it easier for users to use more of the tasks available.
>
> The fetch.xml is in the ANT_HOME directory which should be the current
> directory. That detail should probably be added to the manual.
>
> [1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#optionalTasks
>
> On 30/05/2010 5:18 AM, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote:
>> To install Ant, follow the instructions at
>> http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing
>> Bruce had more information on this above.
>> I did notice that there is an extra step:
>>
>> 5. Optionally, run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library
>>
>>> dependencies of most of the Ant optional tasks. If you don't do this,
>>> many
>>> of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional
>>> Tasks<#optionalTasks> for
>>> details and other options for the -Ddest parameter.
>>>
>> What is "system"? Is it replaced with the ant home? Or is it a literal?
>> Is this step new with 1.8?
>> Where is the fetch.xml script?
>> Does current directory need to be set?
>> <http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing>
>> --glenn
>>
>>
>
>
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