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+#!/bin/bash
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# buildAnt -- Build Nightly Distribution Files for ANT
+#
+# Goals:
+# - Create nightly distribution files of Ant, including the JAXP reference
+#   implementation JAR files (so no extra downloads are needed), in the usual
+#   formats
+# - Optionally, install these distribution files on the Jakarta web server
+#
+# Prerequisites:
+# - The user under which this script runs must have done a CVS "login"
+#   for anonymous access to the Jakarta repositories
+# - Java Development Kit, version 1.2.2, installed and configured
+#   (avoids compiler problems in 1.1 and 1.3 related to XML classes)
+# - Ant 3.1 binary distribution installed
+# - ANT_HOME points at this distribution directory (you can set it
+#   in ~/.antrc)
+# - The "ant" script in $ANT_HOME/bin is accessible on your PATH
+# - Java API for XML Parsing (JAXP) 1.0 reference implementation installed
+# - JAXP_HOME points at this distribution directory (you can set it
+#   in ~/.antrc)
+# - The "buildAnt.xml" script (from the Ant source repository) is
+#   in the same directory that this script is.
+# - To execute the "install" target, you must be running on the Jakarta
+#   server, as part of group "jakarta".
+#
+# Author:	Craig R. McClanahan
+# Version:	$Revision$ $Date$
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+. ~/.antrc
+ant -buildfile buildAnt.xml -Djaxp.home=$JAXP_HOME "$@"
diff --git a/buildAnt.xml b/buildAnt.xml
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+<project name="Ant Nightly Distribution" default="all" basedir=".">
+
+  <!-- Build Management Properties
+
+    buildAnt.archive          Distribution directory to be archived
+    buildAnt.cvsRoot          CVS login root for Ant
+    buildAnt.dateStamp        YYYYMMDD date stamp (from executing script)
+    buildAnt.dist             Distribution directory produced by "build" target
+    buildAnt.name             Base name of packaged distribution files
+    buildAnt.package          CVS package name for Ant
+    buildAnt.server           Jakarta server's nightly builds directory
+    buildAnt.source           Directory into which Ant sources are extracted
+    buildAnt.uploads	      Directory into which archives to upload are made
+    jaxp.home                 Home directory of the JAXP distribution
+
+  -->
+
+  <property name="buildAnt.archive"      value="archive/jakarta-ant"/>
+  <property name="buildAnt.cvsRoot"      value=":pserver:anoncvs@jakarta.apache.org:/home/cvspublic"/>
+  <property name="buildAnt.dist"         value="dist/ant"/>
+  <property name="buildAnt.name"         value="jakarta-ant"/>
+  <property name="buildAnt.package"      value="jakarta-ant"/>
+  <property name="buildAnt.server"       value="/www/jakarta.apache.org/builds/ant/nightly"/>
+  <property name="buildAnt.source"       value="jakarta-ant"/>
+  <property name="buildAnt.uploads"      value="uploads/ant"/>
+
+  <!-- Extract the most recent sources from the CVS repository -->
+  <target name="extract">
+    <deltree dir="${buildAnt.source}"/>
+    <cvs cvsRoot="${buildAnt.cvsRoot}" package="${buildAnt.package}"
+         dest="${buildAnt.source}"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <!-- Build the distribution according to its instructions -->
+  <target name="build">
+    <ant dir="${buildAnt.source}" target="clean"/>
+    <ant dir="${buildAnt.source}" target="dist"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <!-- Insert add-ons as required for the nightly distribution -->
+  <target name="addons">
+    <echo message="Copying addons from '${jaxp.home}' to '${buildAnt.dist}/lib'"/>
+    <copyfile src="${jaxp.home}/jaxp.jar"
+             dest="${buildAnt.dist}/lib/jaxp.jar"/>
+    <copyfile src="${jaxp.home}/parser.jar"
+             dest="${buildAnt.dist}/lib/parser.jar"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <!-- Package up the distribution in various formats -->
+  <target name="package">
+    <!-- Recreate the archive directory -->
+    <deltree dir="${buildAnt.archive}"/>
+    <mkdir   dir="${buildAnt.archive}"/>
+    <copydir src="${buildAnt.dist}" dest="${buildAnt.archive}"/>
+    <!-- Recreate the uploads directory -->
+    <deltree dir="${buildAnt.uploads}"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${buildAnt.uploads}"/>
+    <!-- Create the uploadable files in various formats -->
+    <tstamp/>
+    <tar tarfile="${buildAnt.uploads}/${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.tar"
+         basedir="${buildAnt.archive}/.."/>
+    <gzip    src="${buildAnt.uploads}/${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.tar"
+         zipfile="${buildAnt.uploads}/${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.tar.gz"/>
+    <exec    dir="${buildAnt.uploads}"
+         command="compress ${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.tar"/>
+    <zip zipfile="${buildAnt.uploads}/${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.zip"
+         basedir="${buildAnt.archive}/.."/>
+  </target>
+
+  <!-- Install the distributable files to the Jakarta server -->
+  <!-- Obviously, this will only work right on the real server!!! -->
+  <target name="install">
+    <copydir src="${buildAnt.uploads}" dest="${buildAnt.server}"
+             includes="${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.*"/>
+    <chmod   src="${buildAnt.server}/${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.*"
+             perm="g+w"/>
+    <chmod   src="${buildAnt.server}/${buildAnt.name}-${DSTAMP}.*"
+             perm="o+r"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <!-- All-in-one target (except for install) -->
+  <target name="all" depends="extract,build,addons,package"/>
+
+</project>