Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 89663 invoked by uid 500); 8 Jun 2001 08:55:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 89639 invoked by uid 1059); 8 Jun 2001 08:55:09 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 01:55:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig R. McClanahan" X-Sender: craigmcc@localhost To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org, Punky Tse Subject: Re: [T4] Three things In-Reply-To: <00a301c0efc1$8422e5a0$3512a8c0@wspunkytse> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Punky Tse wrote: > > > #1. I have been able to compile Tomcat 4 for the FIRST time in about 6 > > months without a lot of painful work. Woo hoo! > > > Agree. I have the same experience before. But a few days ago I tried > again, I did it. How amazing. Thanks a lot, guys. > > Now my only complain for building TC4 from cvs is that I cannot find out how > to make build/ and dist/ directories to some places other than under > jakarta-tomcat-4.0. Could any body help me out? > > Regards, > Punky > > > You should just be able to override "tomcat.build" and "tomcat.dist" properties in your local build.properties file. One of the advantages of the build.properties approach is that you can override *any* property definition in Ant, not just the ones that were passed from the build.sh or build.bat scripts. Craig