I just hit that page with a sledgehammer and redirected people to the "How to Contribute" page.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 7/13/2017 2:16 PM, Steve Pruitt wrote: >> I have been following the instructions on the Solr Wiki for compiling Solr. >> I started with the 6.6 source. The only thing I did different was download >> the src directly. I did not use Subversion. >> I made through step 7 - Compile application with no problems. However, the >> dist folder contains newly build snapshot jars, but no war file. > > As noted by Daniel on your other reply, that page is very out of date. > This is more current: > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute > > There has been no war file in the dist directory since version 5.0.0, > and there has been no war file produced *at all* since version 5.3.0. > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/WhyNoWar > > If you run "ant server", then you will get a runnable server. Once > that's done, type "bin/solr start" or "bin\solr start" to start Solr, > depending on the operating system. > > I agree with Daniel on another point: If you aren't intending to > immediately jump into editing the source code, then you should download > the binary distribution, which is ready to run right away. > > You can also run "ant package" to create your own local copy of the > binary distribution with a SNAPSHOT version number. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
