Description of problem: Having fought with ant many times on Fedora, I've finally found out why I couldn't get the replaceregexp task working even after installing the requisite ant-apache-regexp rpm. The problem is that ant-nodeps is not installed by default, and it is the jar the contains the actual taskdefs for all the optional ant tasks. Fedora should either include this jar as a default, or at least have all the optional task jars include it as a dependency. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ant.1.7.0-1jpp.2.fc8 How reproducible: Quite. :) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 8 2. yum install ant.i386 ant-apache-regexp.i386 (or ant-apache-oro.i386) 3. Create a build script with a regexpreplace task in it. 4. Run the script to see the failure. Actual results: Error message is given saying the taskdef for regexpreplace can't be found. Expected results: The build script should run with no issue. Additional info:
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In Fedora 14, this is still a problem. replaceregexp and regexpmapper are "optional" elements, but are supposed to work in any Java >= 1.4 without any dependencies except the ant core. When a casual ant user installs ant and tries to run a build.xml that works fine on other platforms, instead they get: Could not create type regexpmapper due to No supported regular expression matcher found: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpMatcher They know they are running a Java >= 1.4 and the ant documentation says this should just work. The fact that org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpMatcher is in ant-nodeps.jar and that ant-nodeps.jar is provided by the package ant-nodeps is not something the average ant user should need to know. This could be resolved in one of three ways: 1. Add ant-nodeps as dependency of ant. 2. Bake ant-nodeps into ant. 3. Add some form of stub to instruct the user that in order to get this optional functionality they need to install ant-nodeps.
This has been fixed in SL6, so presumably also in RHEL6: yum install ant-apache-regexp ... Installing: ant-apache-regexp x86_64 1.7.1-13.el6 sl 27 k Installing for dependencies: ant-nodeps x86_64 1.7.1-13.el6 sl 781 k Is it really still WONTFIX in Fedora?