Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 179759
Ant should provide $ANT_HOME/lib/ant.jar
Last modified: 2009-08-07 18:24:12 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Some programs ignore the current CLASSPATH and expect to find ant.jar in $ANT_HOME/lib/ant.jar. (The EMMA build script is an example.) Since this is the layout used in binary distributions of Ant, this doesn't seem entirely unreasonable. It should be simple to provide a symlink from /usr/share/ant/lib/ant.jar to /usr/share/java/ant.jar. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ant-1.6.5-1jpp_4fc How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download EMMA source code from above URL. 2. Create build.properties with Ant directory set to /usr/share/ant. 3. Run "ant" to build EMMA. Actual Results: Build fails; unable to resolve Ant classes. Expected Results: Build should succeed. Additional info: I have also entered this in JPackage's Bugzilla as bug #196.
/usr/share/java/ant is not meant to be ANT_HOME. The suggested (JPackage style) workaround for this is setting ant dir to something else, creating a lib/ in there, and using build-jar-repository to link the appropriate jars.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp
${ant.home} is now /usr/share/ant, which is appropriate. But many projects expect ${ant.home}/lib/ant.jar to exist as in the binary distribution (I'm seeing it in gridengine's sdm module). Please provide symlinks to the jar files in ${ant.home}/lib/.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Created attachment 354235 [details] Patch to ant.spec to provide symbolic links to jar files in $ANT_HOME Ping, hello? Still an issue with F-11. I have an updated spec file ready to go for this. Successful koji test build here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1483273 I can check it in and build if that is okay.
Fixed in 1.7.1-11.fc12.