> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:59:13 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: native2ascii and JDK/JRE
>
> [Trying again with a better subject and no garbage at the end...sorry.]
>
> Excuse me if this has been answered or documented elsewhere, I've been
> searching
> for the past couple of hours and have found very little on this issue.
>
> I have a project that uses the native2ascii task, that works fine on a
> machine
> with JRE 6 (1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609).
>
> However, when trying to run the same project under JRE 7 (1.7.0_67-b01), it
> fails with the Java message "Error starting Sun's native2ascii."
>
> Eventually I was able to fix this issue by copying tools.jar from a JDK into
> the
> lib file of my JRE.
MG>you should already have tools.jar for JAVA_HOME on CLASSPATH e.g. export
CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$CLASSPATH
find . -name tools.jar
Directory of ./Java7/lib
09/20/2013 07:42 AM 15,228,504 tools.jar
1 File(s) 15,228,504 bytes
Directory of ./jdk1.6.0_23/lib
01/31/2011 12:16 PM 12,633,716 tools.jar
1 File(s) 12,633,716 bytes
MG>native2ascii for your JAVA_HOME should already be located on PATH e.g.
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
find . -name native2ascii.*
Java7/bin
09/20/2013 07:42 AM 15,752 native2ascii.exe
1 File(s) 15,752 bytes
jdk1.6.0_23/bin
01/31/2011 12:16 PM 33,536 native2ascii.exe
1 File(s) 33,536 bytes
MG>please verify
> I'm surprised to have to go to such lengths to fix this issue. I'm also
> surprised there's not more documentation in the native2ascii task in the Ant
> manual pointing out this problem.
>
> Is there a more elegant solution out there than copying tools.jar? (I'm using
> Apache Ant under the DITA Open Toolkit; most DITA OT users just use the JRE.)
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions,
> Simon
>
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> Simon F. Bate
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