Where does 'make sanity' look for the ANT version?

[Sergey Bylokhov]

28.03.2012 10:06, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> I corrected a permissions problem on the tools.jar file and make
> sanity ran smoothly
> after that. Now having fun trying to find the exact Ubnutu package
> that contains the
> X11 headers the build needs, but that's a different story :-)
Hi, Martijn.
This should works
sudo apt-get install libxrender-dev build-essential gawk libasound2-dev 
libfreetype6-dev libcups2-dev libxt-dev libx11-dev libxtst-dev
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On 28 March 2012 02:22, Stuart Marks<stuart.marks at oracle.com>  wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Martijn!
>>
>> One of my colleagues ran into this the other day. I don't know all the
>> details and the solution but I have a clue that might help you move forward.
>>
>> In make/common/shared/Sanity.gmk there are the lines,
>>
>>> _ANT_VER:=$(shell $(ANT) -version 2>&1 )
>>> ANT_VER:=$(call GetVersion,"$(_ANT_VER)")
>>
>> The GetVersion function (defined in Defs.gmk) extracts the version number
>> from the shell output using a regexp. Unfortunately there seem to be
>> circumstances -- not sure exactly what they are though -- when the shell
>> output includes a *java* version number, either in the output or in a path.
>> Clearly you're using Java 7 -- that is, JDK 1.7.0 -- and the GetVersion
>> regexp is happily picking this up thinking it's the ant version number.
>>
>> One path forward would be to investigate why "shell $(ANT) -version" is
>> returning some unexpected output and is possibly not even running ant at
>> all.
>>
>> I'll forward this to my colleague to see whether he has anything to add.
>>
>> s'marks
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/26/12 3:55 AM, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> So I'm building new VMs to try the various OpenJDK builds and have run
>>> across a pretty consistent problem using Lubuntu 11.10 (32-bit) with
>>> the detection of ANT.
>>>
>>> I have ANT 1.8.2 installed (Ant 1.7 is clearly removed) but 'make
>>> sanity' insists that the ANT version I have is 1.7.0.
>>>
>>> * My DEVTOOLS_PATH is pointing at /usr/bin which has the correct version
>>> of ANT
>>> * When I set ANT_HOME (export ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant) before running
>>> 'make sanity' it doesn't appear to take hold (the output from make
>>> sanity shows ANT_HOME to be blank)
>>>
>>> I'm not sure where else it might be reading this from, does anyone
>>> where I should go spelunking to see where it makes this check?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martijn


-- 
Best regards, Sergey.