Antoine, Thanks for waking me up!
I don't believe it was a problem with Ant but with the environment settings. I am deliberately using my own script to call Ant with correct settings to avoid such problems. I would normally always run my build script in a new command window. On this occasion I was re-using the same window whilst debugging and I believe there must have been some rubbish in the environment settings. Running in a fresh command window has cured the problem. Ant.bat is probably OK because the "shift" command moves the other paramters into %1 so at first glance it looks as though only %1 is being considered where in fact they all are. Now that it works I find this a much cleaner way of controlling taskdefs: I should be able to upgrade to a different release of tools like xdoclet and hibernate just by changing the lib directives in the build script (except if they have major API changes of course!) Danke, Merci, Thanks Regards Gary Howard Senior Software Engineer Celona Technologies Ltd. Celona: Accelerated Transformation -----Original Message----- From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 June 2006 15:42 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Strange behaviour Hello Gary, what you are describing sounds like a bug. the question is where does the bug happen. A possible candidate would be ant.bat. I suspect that the -noclasspath option is not executed reliably depending upon -quiet comes before -noclasspath or not. -noclasspath is a command line option which is completely processed in ant.bat, not reached to the java code. Actually, a look at the code of ant.bat in ant 1.6.5 shows that the option only works when it is the first argument on the command line. (or I do not understand the full picture). So your build *does not* work when you start it with -noclasspath. Regards, Antoine -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:22:30 +0100 Von: Gary Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: user@ant.apache.org Betreff: Strange behaviour > All, > > I am using ant 1.6.5 with the following command line on Windows XP Pro: > > call %ANT_HOME%\bin\ant -quiet -noclasspath -nouserlib ^ -lib > tools\xdoclet-1.2.3\lib ^ -lib tools\hibernate-3.1 -lib > tools\hibernate-3.1\lib ^ -lib lib\ext\j2ee-1.3 -lib > libtest\junit3.8.2 -lib tools\bcel-5.2 > > and my build works fine. > I can substitute "-debug" "-verbose" or "-logfile" for "-quiet" and it > still works. > > However if I leave "-quiet" out altogether the taskdefs such as these: > > <taskdef name="hibernatedoclet" > classname="xdoclet.modules.hibernate.HibernateDocletTask"/> > <taskdef name="ejbdoclet" > classname="xdoclet.modules.ejb.EjbDocletTask"/> > > all fail with the message: > C:\clearcase_snapshots\ghoward_view\celona_software_dev\build.xml:402: > The following error occurred while executing this line: > C:\clearcase_snapshots\ghoward_view\celona_software_dev\build.xml:525: > taskdef class xdoclet.modules.hibernate.HibernateDocletTask cannot be > found > > Can someone explain how (and why) the output options are apparently > affecting the taskdef classpath? > > Regards > Gary Howard > Senior Software Engineer > > Celona Technologies Ltd. > Celona: Accelerated Transformation > > > > This communication contains information which is confidential and is > for the exclusive use of the addressee. Any unauthorised use, > distribution or copying of the information is prohibited. If you have > received this transmission in error please contact the sender immediately. > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ This communication contains information which is confidential and is for the exclusive use of the addressee. Any unauthorised use, distribution or copying of the information is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error please contact the sender immediately. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
