build error: thirdparty\jboss\aop\component-info.xml:1: Cont

[andyredhead]

I'm trying to build jboss 4 from the source (I want to build a test case for a specific ejb3 problem and I'd like to use as much of what already exists as possible).

I've followed the instructions at:

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossBuild

These boil down to using cvs to do a checkout of:

cvs co -r Branch_4_0 jboss-4.0.x

then going to the build directory and running build - I get that far no problem.

The problem is that the build task finishes with an error:

jboss-4.0.x\thirdparty\jboss\aop\component-info.xml:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.

Which, if coming from an xml processor is not unreasonable as the contents of that file is:

a352a1e9b02f9d56fecf3c672f741583 ./jboss/aop/1.5.1.snapshot/component-info.xml

which is not very xmlish at all...

Its been a long couple of weeks so its perfectly possible that I've missed something really obvious...

Anyone has any idea what I need to do to get the build working?

Thanks

Andy

[peterj]

I looked at that wiki page and it is telling people to get things out of CVS when JBoss source is now in Subversion. Ouch. You could try getting the source as follows:

svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/branches/Branch_4_0/

Or you could download one of the source packages from the download site http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossas/download

[andyredhead]

Ahhh - that would be what I've missed!

I've done a checkout using subversion from the url you suggested, ran the build script and everything worked fine :)

Many thanks.