On 2010-10-22, Gökhan Özbulak wrote: > I wonder if ant supports something like "make install" in make of GNU. I > examined various build.xml files from various well known projects like > Apache Tomcat etc., but couldn't see anything about installing files built > into somewhere like /usr/bin in GNU/Linux distros.
Most Java projects think differently about "install" than native apps. Taking Ant for example, "installing" it means unpack the distribution wherever you want, set the ANT_HOME environment variable if you feel like it (otherwise the wrapper script will figure it out in most cases anyway) and add the bin directory to the PATH environment variable. I think Tomcat has Windows installers and there are various platform dependent packages for popular Java tools/libraries usually not maintained by the actual developers of the tool/library. Unfortunately the Linux distributor's ideas of where to put things - what would be closest to what "make install" would do - likely are very different from the original developers' ideas. The RPM packages for Ant ship with different/modified wrapper scripts for example and if you report a bug against Ant a normal first reaction will be "uninstall the RPM and install an official distribution". But I'm getting carried away (Hi Stephen ;-). My guess as to why there is no "make install" equivalent in most Ant build files is that there is no "make install" equivalent in the mindest of the project's developers. I don't have Tomcat anywhere close to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or /opt and neither is Ant on my Linux development box, they live somewhere under my home directory. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
