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diff --git a/manual/platform.html b/manual/platform.html index 59c86c1b3..cfa42b148 100644 --- a/manual/platform.html +++ b/manual/platform.html @@ -128,44 +128,6 @@ MacOS X a.k.a. macOS is the first of the Apple platforms that Ant supports compl like any other Unix. </p> -<h2>Novell Netware</h2> -<p> -To give the same level of sophisticated control as Ant's startup scripts on other platforms, it was -decided to make the main ant startup on NetWare be via a Perl Script, <code>runant.pl</code>. This -is found in the <samp>bin</samp> directory (for instance—<samp>bootstrap\bin</samp> -or <samp>dist\bin</samp>). -</p> - -<p>One important item of note is that you need to set up the following to run Ant:</p> -<ul> - <li><code>CLASSPATH</code>—put <samp>ant.jar</samp> and any other needed jars on the system - classpath.</li> - <li><code>ANT_OPTS</code>—On NetWare, <code>ANT_OPTS</code> needs to include a parameter of - the form, <kbd>-envCWD=<i>ANT_HOME</i></kbd>, with <kbd><i>ANT_HOME</i></kbd> being the - fully expanded location of Ant, <strong>not</strong> an environment variable. This is due to - the fact that the NetWare System Console has no notion of a current working directory.</li> -</ul> -<p>It is suggested that you create up an <samp>ant.ncf</samp> that sets up these parameters, and -calls <samp>perl ANT_HOME/dist/bin/runant.pl</samp></p> -<p>The following is an example of such an NCF file (assuming Ant is installed -in <samp>sys:/apache-ant/</samp>):</p> -<pre> -envset CLASSPATH=sys:/apache-ant/bootstrap/lib/ant.jar -envset CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH;sys:/apache-ant/lib/optional/junit.jar -envset CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH;sys:/apache-ant/bootstrap/lib/optional.jar - -setenv ANT_OPTS=-envCWD=sys:/apache-ant -envset ANT_OPTS=-envCWD=sys:/apache-ant -setenv ANT_HOME=sys:/apache-ant/dist/lib -envset ANT_HOME=sys:/apache-ant/dist/lib - -perl sys:/apache-ant/dist/bin/runant.pl</pre> - -<p>Ant works on JVM version 1.3 or higher. You may have some luck running it on JVM 1.2, but -serious problems have been found running Ant on JVM 1.1.7B. These problems are caused by JVM bugs -that will not be fixed.</p> -<p>JVM 1.3 is supported on Novell NetWare versions 5.1 and higher.</p> - <h2>Other platforms</h2> <p> Support for other platforms is not guaranteed to be complete, as certain techniques to hide platform |