manifestclasspath has a maxParentLevels attribute to limit the relative
path transformations, deafults to 2
https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/manifestclasspath.html
set it to maxparentlevels="10" or something reasonable to create relative
classpaths which are farther than 2 levels away from ${basedir}
../
../../
../../../
../../../../
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:57 AM Pietro Paolini <
pietro.paol...@alfasystems.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks, I think that is the way to go. I can get it to work though as the
> compiler does not find the needed classes. I checked the generated jar it
> looks correct. The paths are all
> Relative, is that OK ?
>
> Compilation fails because it can't resolve many classes, follow a snipped
> of my build.xml.
>
> <delete file="="${basedir}/out.jar" failonerror="false" />
> <local name="mine-classpath" />
> <manifestclasspath property="mine-classpath"
> jarfile="${basedir}" >
> <classpath refid="@{classpathref}"/>
> </manifestclasspath>
> <jar destfile="${basedir}/out.jar">
> <manifest>
> <attribute name="Implementation-Title" value="${
> ant.project.name}" />
> <attribute name="Class-Path"
> value="${mine-classpath}"/>
> </manifest>
> </jar>
> [..]
> <javac srcdir="@{src}"
> encoding="UTF-8"
> source="@{sourceVersion}"
> target="@{destinationVersion}"
> debug="@{debug}"
> verbose="@{verbose}"
> debuglevel="@{debuglevel}"
> fork="@{fork}"
> memoryinitialsize="@{minHeap}"
> memorymaximumsize="@{maxHeap}">
> <exclude name="**/package-info.java"/>
> <compilerarg value="-proc:only"/>
> <compilerarg value="-processor"/>
> <compilerarg
> value="com.querydsl.apt.hibernate.HibernateAnnotationProcessor"/>
> <compilerarg value="-s"/>
> <compilerarg value="@{gen}"/>
>
> <classpath path="${basedir}/out.jar" />
> </javac>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jose M Urena [mailto:jose.ur...@verizon.com]
> > Sent: 06 August 2018 14:19
> > To: Ant Users List
> > Subject: [DKIM:FAIL] Re: [E] Javac: Command-Line Argument Files
> >
> > the issue for classpath too long can be fixed by a different strategy
> using
> > a manifest's class-path with an empty jar file
> >
> > <property name="path.jar" value=" ${basedir}/dist/path.jar" />
> > >
> > > <target name="compile" depends="pathjar">
> > >
> > > <javac debug="on"
> > >
> > > deprecation="off"
> > >
> > > optimize="off"
> > >
> > > destdir="${dest.dir}"
> > >
> > > srcdir="${src.dir}"
> > >
> > > includeantruntime="false"
> > >
> > > encoding="ISO-8859-1"
> > >
> > > fork="true">
> > >>
> > > <compilerarg line="-Xlint:${JAVA_LINT} " />
> > >
> > > <classpath path="${path.jar}" />
> > >
> > > </javac>
> > >
> > > </target>
> > >
> > >
> >
> > > <target name="pathjar">
> > >
> > > <delete file="${path.jar}" failonerror="false" />
> > >>
> > > <mkdir dir="${basedir}/dist" />
> > >
> > > <manifestclasspath jarfile="${path.jar}"
> > >
> > > property="pathjar.classpath"
> > >
> > > maxparentlevels="40" >
> > >
> > > <classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
> > >
> > > </manifestclasspath>
> > >
> > > <echo message="Class-Path: ${pathjar.classpath}" level="debug" />
> > >
> > >
> > >> <jar destfile="${path.jar}">
> > >
> > > <manifest>
> > >
> > > <attribute name="Implementation-Title" value="${ant.project.name}" />
> > >
> > > <attribute name="Class-Path"
> > >> value="${pathjar.classpath}"/>
> > >>
> > > </manifest>
> > >
> > > </jar>
> > >
> > > </target>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:28 AM Pietro Paolini <
> > pietro.paol...@alfasystems.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It is heavily intertwined with corporate stuff so I can't. it is a
> regular
> > > javac task whose class path is *huge* - the problem I reckon is that
> the
> > > command line parameters (which includes the
> > > Classpath) do not fit into the window's command line limit.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > at
> > > org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1405)
> > > at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1376)
> > > at
> > >
> >
> org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.ja
> > va:41)
> > > at
> org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1260)
> > > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:857)
> > > at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:236)
> > > at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:287)
> > > at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:113)
> > > Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program
> > > Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_144\bin\javac.exe" (in directory "xxxxx"):
> > > CreateProcess error=206, The filename or extension is too long
> > > at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1048)
> > > at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:620)
> > > at
> > >
> > org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.launcher.Java13CommandLauncher.exec(Java13
> > CommandLauncher.java:58)
> > > at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.launch(Execute.java:426)
> > > at
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.execute(Execute.java:440)
> > > at
> > >
> >
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.DefaultCompilerAdapter.executeExtern
> > alCompile(DefaultCompilerAdapter.java:598)
> > > ... 101 more
> > > Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=206, The filename
> or
> > > extension is too long
> > > at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
> > > at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:386)
> > > at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:137)
> > > at java.lang.Proc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jan Matèrne (jhm) [mailto:apa...@materne.de]
> > > > Sent: 05 August 2018 09:21
> > > > To: 'Ant Users List'
> > > > Subject: AW: [E] Javac: Command-Line Argument Files
> > > >
> > > > Could you post your buildfile snippet and the build output?
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> > > >
> > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > > > Von: Jose M Urena [mailto:jose.ur...@verizon.com]
> > > > > Gesendet: Freitag, 3. August 2018 15:02
> > > > > An: Ant Users List
> > > > > Betreff: Re: [E] Javac: Command-Line Argument Files
> > > > >
> > > > > the following suggestion I have learned for working with Jenkins
> jobs
> > > > > which can have very long paths for the workspace
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. if you have permission on your computer/server to create windows
> > > > > shares and to run from shared drive, then you could save most of
> the
> > > > > characters to the left of your path by using PUSHD
> > > > >
> > > > > if your current dir is c:\users\yourname\documents\ which is 28
> > > > > characters then pushd will reduce it to 3, saving you 25 characters
> > > > >
> > > > > net share TEMPSHORTPATH=%CD% /grant:%USERNAME%,FULL pushd
> > > > > \\%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%\TEMPSHORTPATH
> > > > > :: call your ant script
> > > > >
> > > > > ant
> > > > >
> > > > > :: leave the temp drive, remove it from windows shares popd net
> share
> > > > > /delete TEMPSHORTPATH
> > > > > :: confirm share was cleaned
> > > > > net use
> > > > > net share
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. if the issue is with commands under your c:\program files, like
> > > > > c:\program files\oracle\jdk180\bin\javac you can try using MKLINK
> to
> > > > > remove spaces and shorten the path mkdir c:\dev cd c:\dev
> mklink /j
> > > > > jdk "c:\program files\oracle\jdk180"
> > > > >
> > > > > now you can use c:\dev\jdk\bin\javac which is shorter than
> c:\program
> > > > > files\oracle\jdk180\bin\javac
> > > > >
> > > > > 3. if you can not use PUSHD, mklink can be used to shorten paths
> but it
> > > > > is not as short as pushd mkdir c:\dev cd c:\dev mklink /j doc
> > > > > "c:\users\yourname\documents\"
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 6:25 AM Pietro Paolini <
> > > > > pietro.paol...@alfasystems.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am a bit struggling with an build.xml file <javac> task, I
> haven't
> > > > > > got too much experience with Ant but hopefully my question won't
> > > > > sound
> > > > > > too silly. On a window machine I reach the Command line limit
> size
> > > > > and
> > > > > > the compiler task fails as "the extension or file name is too
> long".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am wondering if it could be possible to get advantage of
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> > > > > 3A__docs.oracle.com_j
> > > > > > avase_8_docs_technotes_tools_windows_javac.html-
> > > > > 23BHCJEIBB&d=DwIFAg&c=
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > udBTRvFvXC5Dhqg7UHpJlPps3mZ3LRxpb6__0PomBTQ&r=8XYgcdEXHJW1PQ9
> > > > xb6NrZ5vl
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> > > > > > 6wFJcoY-jzVaYoMjXRGQtLVB4MbjUD6j_Krv55Gp0&e=
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there a quick win on that ? I couldn't find much on Google :-(
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Pietro
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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