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<li>Read the ASF notes about source repositories and
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<li>At a command prompt, enter
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(committers should replace <span class="codefrag">http</span> with <span class="codefrag">https</span>).</li>
<li>This will create a directory called "<span class="codefrag">forrest</span>" where the Forrest source will be stored.</li>
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SVN is really powerful. See
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This document applies to the current 0.7 release version. See other
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version.
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To build Forrest, change directory to '<span class="codefrag">forrest/main</span>', and
then type '<span class="codefrag">build</span>' on Windows or '<span class="codefrag">./build.sh</span>'
on Unix. (Requires Java 1.4) If everything is successful, you should see
a message similar to:
</p>
<pre class="code">
*-----------------------------------------------------------------
| Installation notice
*-----------------------------------------------------------------
| You have built the X.Y-dev version of Forrest.
| Please set the environment variable FORREST_HOME point to
| /svn/forrest
| It is recommended to add
| unix: $FORREST_HOME/bin: to your $PATH
| win: %FORREST_HOME%\bin; to your %PATH%
| Then do 'forrest -projecthelp' to list options for the 'forrest' command
| More help at http://forrest.apache.org/
*-----------------------------------------------------------------
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As the message says, you need to add the distribution's
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<span class="codefrag">'forrest'</span> command is available everywhere:
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[~]$ cd /path/to/svn/forrest
[/svn/forrest]$ export FORREST_HOME=`pwd`
[/svn/forrest]$ export PATH=$PATH:$FORREST_HOME/bin
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etc.) you will need to clean and build forrest again. Do 'cd
forrest/main; build clean; build".
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Forrest is now ready to go. To view and edit the local copy of Forrest
core documentation, cd to site-author and do '<span class="codefrag">forrest run</span>'
to see the local webapp using the bundled Jetty server. Edit something
in content/xdocs/*.xml see the immediate effect.
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