can't find classpath task

[John Minne <jm...@webtaggers.com>]

I am getting the error:  "Could not create task of type classpath because I
can't find it in the list task class definitions."

I didn't think that classpath is considered a task...

ant -version gives: "Ant version 1.2 compiled on October 26 2000"

my code is:

 <target name="compile" depends="prepare">
    <javac srcdir="src" destdir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes" debug="on"
optimize="off" deprecation="off">
            <classpath>
              <path refid="mb2.class.path"/> 
              <pathelement location="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
            </classpath>
    </javac>
  </target>

this seems to be inaccordance with the manual:

<target ... >
    <javac ...>
      <classpath>
        <pathelement location="lib/" />
        <pathelement path="${java.class.path}/" />
        <pathelement path="${additional.path}" />
      </classpath>
    </javac>
  </target>

any suggestions? 

thanks,

-johnboy


-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Holt [mailto:holtdl@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:37 PM
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: RE: ant breaking w/ lots of files?


Robert,

This might not fix all your problems, but one thing: You have your srcdir
set to ${src}/com/winwin, but you should have it set to just ${src} and
have your includes set to com/winwin/**. 

Diane
--- "Armstrong, Robert" <Ro...@Winwin.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:bodewig@bost.de]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:26 AM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: ant breaking w/ lots of files?
> 
> 
>  >>>>> "r" == robert  <ro...@elastica.com> writes:
> 
>  >> Ant/Java somehow fails to load in all of my packages/classes and
>  >> even though the package directory structure is correct it fails to
>  >> find several packages which causes the whole build to fail.
> 
>  > Robert (Armstrong in this case) could you send a snippet of your
>  > buildfile and the result of ant -debug?
> 
> This is the interesting part of my buildfile:
> 
> <javac verbose="true" srcdir="${src}/com/winwin" destdir="${dest}"
> includes="**\*.java" classpath=" etc, etc.">
> 
> Turning on -debug reveals that javac is in fact parsing all the files
> that I
> have and particularly the ones that later on it says it can't find the
> packages for.
> 
> So it says:
> 
>     [javac] [parsed
> /usr/local/build/src/com/winwin/xmlsystem/XMLGenerator.java in 1 ms]
> 
> and then later on I'm told it can't find com.winwin.xmlsystem.
> 
> I had been redirecting output to files and hadn't been monitoring stderr
> until now. Now that I am watching stderr I noticed this:
> 
> /export/home/rarmstrong/ant/winbuild.xml:62: Error starting classic
> compiler: 
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
> 
> This happens AFTER all the package errors and in fact after the BUILD
> FAILED
> message. Was it buffered? Or is that when it actually happened? I've
> been
> trying to bump up the memory to javac but it doesn't seem like there is
> a
> way to pass along the -J parameters through javac to 
> the javac VM. Thanks for the help!
> 
> robert
> 


=====
(holtdl@yahoo.com)



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Re: can't find classpath task

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@bost.de>]

>>>>> "JM" == John Minne <jm...@webtaggers.com> writes:

 JM> I am getting the error: "Could not create task of type classpath
 JM> because I can't find it in the list task class definitions."

 JM> I didn't think that classpath is considered a task...

And it isn't.

Are you sure

 JM> <target name="compile" depends="prepare"> 
 JM>   <javac srcdir="src" destdir="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"
 JM>          debug="on" optimize="off" deprecation="off"> 
 JM>     <classpath> 
 JM>       <path refid="mb2.class.path"/> 
 JM>       <pathelement location="${deploy.home}/WEB-INF/classes"/> 
 JM>     </classpath> 
 JM>   </javac> 
 JM> </target>

is a literal copy of your build file? It works for me. 

My wild guess would be that you have accidently terminated the javac
start tag with /> so that <classpath> is at the same level like
<javac> and not a child element of it.

Stefan