build issue: Ant related?

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 03/01/2010 10:17 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 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
>

Hi,

It seems that ant -diagnostics fails (abruptly exits) in Ant 1.8 when 
xerces and xalan are not available (typically in ANT_HOME/lib). In 1.7 
this did not happen. I am now building with the libraries available to 
ant, to see if this is the only fix needed.

Vlastimil