From Craig.McClanahan@eng.sun.com Mon Apr 3 18:49:58 2000 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 6508 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2000 18:49:58 -0000 Received: from lukla.sun.com (192.18.98.31) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 3 Apr 2000 18:49:58 -0000 Received: from centralmail1.Central.Sun.COM ([129.147.62.10]) by lukla.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA22867 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:48:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from swanaba.central (swanaba.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.30.5]) by centralmail1.Central.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id MAA06011 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:43:23 -0600 (MDT) Received: from eng.sun.com (swantty [129.147.30.8]) by swanaba.central (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17726 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:41:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <38E8E5FE.B4E46F53@eng.sun.com> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:42:06 -0700 From: "Craig R. McClanahan" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Building issues and Ant References: <852568B6.0064B760.00@d54mta04.raleigh.ibm.com> <38E8E47E.298A7913@eng.sun.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Costin Manolache wrote: > Sam, I have no problem building ant or tomcat - it's just the nightly build. My > problem is that every 3-4 days the nightly build is broken. Most of the time is > just a minor thing, but it takes a lot of time to find out what's wrong. > > That probably means I use a bad method for building - if anyone wants or have > the time to do that - please do so. > Could the problem be related to overriding property values from the command line? I just posted an Ant bug that says this doesn't work, and IMHO it should -- you should be able to define default properties in build.xml, but override them at runtime with system properties. > > Costin > Craig > > rubys@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > Costin wrote: > > >It's hard to automate the build process when both the build tool, the > > >build script and the source code are changing at the same time. > > > > Can you be more specific? > > > > I can guarantee that the current Tomcat from CVS will build with the > > current Ant from CVS. I can also guarantee that any released version of > > Tomcat will build with the corresponding version of Ant. > > > > I am also pretty sure that the current Tomcat will will build with the last > > released CVS. > > > > What combination are you trying? Not knowing how the nightly builds are > > produced makes it hard to anticipate what changes are OK and what changes > > are not. > > > > - Sam Ruby > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org