build issue: Ant related?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 1 March 2010 09:17, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> 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.
>

Builds just fine with 1.8 here.  I suggest this is something to do
with the reduced way distros package it, rather than the OpenJDK
build.  Make sure ant-nodeps is installed rather than just the core.
It's needed for HEAD anyway.

> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>



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