I just saw your note - thank you. It actually sounds like it might work for us,
as it can append a classpath (path/to/tools.jar) to system classloader
('system' symbolic name). This is interesting.
--Vladimir
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rainer Noack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:22 PM
> To: 'Ant Users List'
> Subject: AW: ant-1.6.5; need to add tools.jar to system classpath
>
> Offline for some days...
>
> Maybe,
>
> http://enitsys.sourceforge.net/ant-classloadertask/
>
> will solve your problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Vladimir Egorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. September 2007 17:47
> An: Ant Users List
> Betreff: RE: ant-1.6.5; need to add tools.jar to system classpath
>
> Jan, Peter,
>
> Thank you for your replies.
>
> > > Would it make sence to start Ant with a JRE and add the (different)
> > tools.jar via -lib?
>
> The goal is to put tools.jar on _system_ classpath. The -lib puts it on
> core Ant classpath.
>
> > > >Vladimir is trying to use a different tools.jar than the one that
> > > >is in $JAVA_HOME - as the one in $JAVA_HOME is broken.
>
> No the tools.jar is the actual one from the JDK. We need it on system
> classpath to work around the class-loading bug in javadoc jdk 1.6.
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6176978
>
> Sorry I should have been clearer.
>
> > > >ATM I do not see any way other that the one you are using.
>
> Thanks - this is good to know. It would be good to make this generic fix
> in ant-1.6.5, as it makes ant.bat script consistent with ant script (as
> far as LOCALCLASSPATH goes).
>
> > > >> - If JAVA_HOME points to a JDK it should be on Ants
> > > >classpath already.
>
> Yes, JAVA_HOME points to a JDK, but tools.jar is not on system
> classpath, even if we add it to CLASSPATH.
>
> > > >> - <javadoc> supports nested sourcepath, classpath and
> bootclasspath
>
> The actual task that got broken is <jwsc>
> http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs90/webserv/anttasks.html#1039892
>
> It has dependency on javadoc. Our goal is to work around the bug in Ant
> environment, rather than telling customers to edit their Ant files, or
> editing our internal test files.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> --Vladimir
>
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