On 05/03/2010 02:47, hwachung feng wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build Tomcat 5.5 following the instructions on the page on > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/building.html > > I am running into problems with the main build.xml that is trying to check > out Tomcat source from the svn url > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/current/tc5.5.x > > which does not exist anymore.
Yep. This is a side effect of changing things around to avoid externals. I'll take a look at the doc and see if we mised anythgn that should have been changed. > after changing it to http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc5.5.x/trunk (or > to a specific tag such as 5.5.26, for example) it still runs into other > problems further down the road. Apparently some of the dependent components > also changed its URLs where the build downloads from. So in general the build > is broken. > > Is there another main build.xml somewhere else that will lead to a much > smoother build for this? Thanks. Building from this URL works without problem for me. Assuming you have checked out that URL and have changed directory to the top of that checkout: cd build ant download ant Of course, if you had showed us the error message you were getting we'd be able to provide more specific advice. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
