[fedora-java] ant contrib rpm not working?

Alexander Kurtakov akurtako at redhat.com
Fri Sep 4 12:09:43 UTC 2009


> Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 14:22 +0300 schrieb Alexander Kurtakov:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > after installing ant-contrib, I cannot use it.
> > >
> > > I have:
> > >
> > > <taskdef uri="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib"
> > > resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>
> > >
> > > in my build.xml
> > >
> > > But as a result I do get a resource not found error.
> > >
> > > How am I supposed to use this thing rpm?
> >
> > Do you have /usr/share/java/ant-contrib.jar on your classpath?
>
> That's the point. I always thought, /usr/share/java/* would be on the
> default classpath. Is that not the case?
>
> At least strace tells me that lots of jar files there are read. Setting
> CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/\* before invoking ant, does not work but dies
> with a strange exception, using
> CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/ant-contrib.jar works, but what is the point
> of doing that if I install a rpm file?
>
> Also I noticed that lots of ant rpms put their files
> into /usr/share/java/ant/
So should ant-contrib. I've adopted it and will fix it for F-12.

>
> So do I really have to manage my CLASSPATH manually?

When using rpm installed software No.
Can you try whether 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1654610&name=ant-
contrib-1.0-0.9.b2.fc12.noarch.rpm fixed the problem?


Regards,
Alex




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