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 Building
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-The library is built using Ant or Maven, pick your poison. Dependencies are
-automatically fetched regardless of whether you use Ant or Maven.
-
-Invoke Ant with any of the following targets:
-
-    all: builds the class files and javadoc documentation
-    compile: builds only the class files (dist/classes)
-    javadoc: builds only the javadoc documentation (dist/docs)
-    tests: builds and runs the unit tests
-    dist: builds the distribution jar file (dist/samskivert.jar)
-
 Invoke Maven with any of the following targets:
 
     mvn test: builds the code and runs the tests