This is an HTML document.
If you go to the Apache web site, you get the document for version 1.2.
You have to look in the docs/ folder of the distribution:
AXIS_HOME\docs\building-axis.html
Click here for the copy stored here.
The steps under the heading
Building without Any Optional Components
have to be done in any case.
If you build it with servlets, then also do the one step under the heading
Building with Servlets
This is also an HTML document (11 pp.) found in the docs\
subfolder of the distribution:
AXIS_HOME\docs\install.html
Click here for the copy stored here.
It goes through all the steps up to making your own services.