To add..
I also tried "ant dist " but it fails
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$ ant dist
Buildfile: build.xml
BUILD FAILED
Target "dist" does not exist in the project "Tomcat 6.0".
Total time: 0 seconds
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- Chary
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Vishwa Chary <
vcharyos@...> wrote:
> Hi Tomcat Gurus,
> Appreciated if you can help me with the following :
>
> I'm trying to build tomcat server from the source code. After downloading
> the source code, "ant " command was successful in executing the deploy
> task. It created a folder "build" under "output" folder . The "build" folder
> contains bin,conf,lib,temp,webapps directories.
> i)I was under the impression that executing ant would build a jar-file or
> file-structure similar to bin-download on tomcats website
> ii)Even with the current structure, I cannot see any startup/shutdown
> scripts under this build folder.
>
> Please let me know if I'm missing any step!
>
> Thanks,
> Chary
>