build issue: Ant related?

[Mark Wielaard]

On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 22:30 +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 28 February 2010 11:42, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> > the new release fails here. Maybe it's our apache-ant update to
> > 1.8.0? We haven't changed anything major since 1.7 release.
> >
> It's OpenJDK that's failing due to your update to Ant.  You should use
> the recommended version of Ant which is 1.7.

Do we know what the actual problem is with 1.8? It would be nice to have
a configure check for it to warn early in the build.

Cheers,

Mark