Tried to rebuild tomcat according to BUILDING.txt <<RalfCHauser@RalfHauser:~/<2>tomcat/mybuild> ant Buildfile: build.xml check.source: get.source: checkout: [echo] If the checkout fails, - todo - BUILD FAILED C:\Documents and Settings\RalfCHauser\My Documents\psph\workspace\tomcat\mybuild\build.xml:87: The following error occur red while executing this line: C:\Documents and Settings\RalfCHauser\My Documents\psph\workspace\tomcat\mybuild\build.xml:70: Execute failed: java.io.I OException: CreateProcess: svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf//tomcat/current/tc5.5.x C:\Documents and Setting s\RalfCHauser\My Documents\psph\workspace\tomcat\mybuild error=2 Total time: 0 seconds>> 1) I guess it would be good to update the BUILDING.txt to reflect the move from CVS to SVN since it still mentions CVS. 2) I do not know a command-line svn client for windows since I use Tortoise as per http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html#anon-svn I did download the "subversion" package in cygwin and got a little bit further <<RalfCHauser@RalfHauser:~/<2>tomcat/mybuild> ant Buildfile: build.xml check.source: get.source: checkout: [echo] If the checkout fails, - todo - [exec] svn: Can't make directory 'Documents\psph\workspace\tomcat\mybuild/tc5.5.x': No such file or directory [exec] Result: 1 build: BUILD FAILED C:\Documents and Settings\RalfCHauser\My Documents\psph\workspace\tomcat\mybuild\build.xml:48: Basedir C:\Documents and Settings\RalfCHauser\My Documents\psph\workspace\tomcat\mybuild\build does not exist Total time: 39 seconds RalfCHauser@RalfHauser:~/<2>tomcat/mybuild> >> So, it appears that either the build.xml should be made cygwin aware i.e. 3) a `cygpath -u ${basedir}` might help here or 4) <exec dir="${basedir}" executable="svn"> <arg line="checkout ${svnroot}/${current.loc} ${basedir}" /> </exec> could be changed to <exec dir="${basedir}" executable="svn"> <arg line="checkout ${svnroot}/${current.loc} . " /> </exec> At least, with cygwin's command line "svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/current/tc5.5.x ." it worked nicely afterwards
If anything - I need to post this script on the site: (providing it still works) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-dev&m=112868500005136&w=2
Updated BUILDING.txt as suggested in (1) above. Waiting for Tim or Ralf (who's now a committer) to take further action, if any.
I ran into similar problems... -> BUILDING.txt should contain a section on installing subversion -> in the initial build.xml, I changed <exec dir="${basedir}" executable="svn"> <arg line="checkout ${svnroot}/${current.loc} ${basedir}" /> </exec> to <exec dir="${basedir}" executable="svn" inputstring="t${line.separator}" failonerror="true"> <arg value="checkout" /> <arg value="${svnroot}/${current.loc}" /> <arg value="${basedir}" /> </exec> This fixes two problems: (1) whitespace in the filenames is handled correctly (2) svn temporarily accepts the self-signed certificate of svn.apache.org With these changes, the build went just smoothly for me!
Created attachment 18381 [details] BUILDING.txt with new section on installing subversion based on yoavs version from 2006-04-13, added section on subversion (basically a copy of the section on Ant)
Created attachment 18382 [details] build.xml with improved exec svn task split arg line to let ant handle whitespace in file names & use a little hack to let svn temporarily accept the certificate of svn.apache.org.
Created attachment 18383 [details] build.xml with improved exec svn task dammit... picked the wrong file...
two more things come to mind... - BUILDING.txt still needs info about svn and proxies... haven't tried it, but http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#proxy should work. - The 'Building with Eclipse' section on http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5- doc/building.html is very helpful. It should be clarified though that one *should* use the elipse workspace as ${tomcat.source}. I found the sentence 'Unless you thought ahead to make the ${tomcat.source} directory be under your Workspace folder...' rather confusing. -> Move that sentence to the top of the section, and make clear that ${tomcat.source} should be == Workspace folder.
Christian, these are great suggestions. I've applied them all more or less. They're in SVN and will be included in the next Tomcat 5.5 release. Thanks!