2010/3/5 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>:
> 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.
>

Take a look at
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc5.5.x/trunk/build/BUILDING.txt

> 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.
>

Looking at the current building.html of not-yet-released 5.5.29, it
appears to be too complicated. (Still using downloadable
docs/build.xml to bootstrap the build. That is not necessary anymore).

>> Is there another main build.xml somewhere else that will lead to a much 
>> smoother build for this? Thanks.

build/build.xml  in the sources.

> Of course, if you had showed us the error message you were getting we'd
> be able to provide more specific advice.

Note, that you can use build/build.properties file to redefine the
download URLs.
Please let us know if some of them are not working.

Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko

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