Building Cougaar from source.

[blaise@idistro.com]

Hello,

I've got a few questions about checking out and building cougaar projects
from cvs. I've just checked out the source tree using the cvs commands of
form: 'cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cougaar.org:/cvsroot/acme checkout acme'
for each project. Is this checking out the source from the current active
dev branch, or should I be using the B12_1_5 branch if so how do I do this
I tried the -r B12_1_5 tag but it didn't seem to work.

Also can't get the source that I have to build, you'll have to excuse my
ignorance I'm used to just typing ant or mvn and having everything work
itself out from there. I had to take a top level build.xml file (that
lives under $COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH) from one of the zipped distributions,
as I couldn't see how to get it out of cvs. I set the env variables
COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH, and JAVA_HOME and typed 'ant'. The build couldn't
find classes in the tools.jar to link to. In addition it falls over as
java 1.4 is set in the build.xml files and some of the source files
contain java 1.5 key words. Also the 3rd party jars aren't found, they are
under jars/lib but the build doesn't copy them to sys. Is there a how to
guide somewhere on the web site that will take me through the build step
by step...

Thanks,

Blaise.