I would just use ant 1.7.0, download from the the ant site, this will ignore the jpackage installed ant, if you define ANT_HOME env variable,
To use optional tasks with the jpackage version of ant requires placing of the defendant libraries in the right place. This involves using the associated rpm files. Peter On 9/26/07, David Weintraub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may want to look at > <http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#librarydependencies> which > tells you the various JAR dependencies for each task. You also need to > read about each specific ant task too and see what jars are needed. > > I haven't used any optional task, but I am using the AntContrib tasks > and the mail task and those needed extra jar files which I put in the > "lib" directory under Ant (version 7.0). > > I also had to add a "taskdef" task to my build.xml. Wonder if you have > to do something similar with the optional ant tasks? > > On 9/26/07, Stephen Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there and thank you for responding; > > I downloaded and installed ant-optional-1.6.5-20.3.i586.rpm > > Which is the closest version I could find to ant-1.6.5-4jpp.noarch.rpm, > > it just contained ant-antlr > > > > Ant -diagnostics still says optional tasks: not available > > > > The install put the ant-antlr jar into /usr/share/java rather than > > usr/share/ant/lib so I tried copying them there but didn't help. > > > > I tried forcing the library with ant -lib /path but same result. > > Any other suggestions? > > Thanks again for your time > > Stephen > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: September 26, 2007 6:08 AM > > To: Ant Users List > > Subject: Re: problems with ant optional tasks > > > > > > > > Stephen Wilkinson wrote: > > > Hi there, I'm pretty much totally new to linux and am having some > > build > > > problems with Dspace which I believe is because I don't have my Ant > > > optional tasks working. > > > > > > aah DSpace. > > > > > > > > Basics I'm using Suse Linux Enterprise Server version 10 with sp 1 > > > > > > I downloaded and installed java - jdk-6u2-linux-i586.rpm > > > > > > As well as "ant-1.6.5-4jpp.noarch.rpm" and > > > "ant-apache-regexp-1.6.5-4jpp.noarch.rpm" > > > > > > I also installed postgresql 8.1 > > > > > > I downloaded dspace source tarball > > > > > > When I run ant fresh_install from the dspace download directory I get > > a > > > build failed error:88 no regular matching expression found (that's why > > I > > > downloaded and installed "ant-apache-regexp-1.6.5-4jpp.noarch.rpm", > > but > > > didn't help) > > > > > > > > > replaceregexp : Not Available > > > > > > Try grabbing ant-optional as well, which should contain the missing > > tasks. You shoudn't need any extra libraries for a java6 jvm, as it has > > built in regexp code. > > -- > > Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5 > > Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > -- > David Weintraub > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
