Would you call this a bug?

[Chris Miller <ki...@vardus.co.uk>]

Something that I got stung by the other day led to the creation of a 400MB+
file (and growing!) before I realised what was going on and intervened...

I had something like the following in my build.xml file:

<jar jarfile="build_dir/project-src.jar" basedir="."/>

Simple enough, just packing up all the source code etc for my project.
Unfortunately I forgot to exclude the build_dir itself from the jar
operation. This lead to an attempt to add the jar file to itself, thus
creating an infinitely large file...
I'm not sure if it is just something that people should watch out for, or if
ant should check for this situation? Any comments?

Re: Bug or RFE launching Java or Javadoc?

[Patrick Chanezon <ch...@netscape.com>]

Hi Eddie,
The FM is at http://jakarta.apache.org/guidelines/source.html
You can submit a patch in this list as described at this url.

P@

Eddie Sheffield wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just started working with Ant this morning. I'm anxious to get rid of the
> horrible mess of makefiles that we currently have, and Ant looks really
> promising!
>
> Anyway, I already have encountered a problem in building Ant itself. Near as
> I can tell, I configured everything as described in the instructions, but
> when I built it bombed on the javadoc statement. I discovered the problem
> was that I didn't have %JAVA_HOME%\bin on my PATH. Since I tend to work with
> a number of different JDKs, I usually don't keep any on my PATH and add them
> manually when necessary. However, it seems it would be nice if there were a
> way in Ant to specify which javadoc (and looking at the source, java) should
> be used for that task. Or perhaps at least pick up the system property
> "java.home" to run the same javadoc/java that is currently being run.
>
> I would be glad to make an attempt at changing this myself, but that leads
> to another question. How do I submit code? I have looked over the docs at
> the web site, and see that only Committers have write access to the
> repository. Do I send changes to a committer to review or to the original
> owner/creator of the file? or something else. Maybe I missed something on
> the web site, but I've gone through all the docs that I found links to. I
> apologize if this is a stupid RTFM thing, but which FM ;-) ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eddie Sheffield

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RE: Bug or RFE launching Java or Javadoc?

[Vitaly Stulsky <vi...@yahoo.com>]

Try http://jakarta.apache.org/guidelines/source.html. 
I believe it will help you to make proper patches.

Cheers,
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Re: Bug or RFE launching Java or Javadoc?

[Tom Dimock <ta...@cornell.edu>]

At 01:54 PM 06/16/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I just started working with Ant this morning. 
...
>I would be glad to make an attempt at changing this myself, but that leads
>to another question. How do I submit code? I have looked over the docs at
>the web site, and see that only Committers have write access to the
>repository. Do I send changes to a committer to review or to the original
>owner/creator of the file? or something else. Maybe I missed something on
>the web site, but I've gone through all the docs that I found links to. I
>apologize if this is a stupid RTFM thing, but which FM ;-) ?

Having fairly recently been where you are, I can identify with your
problem.  The FM you want is
<http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/getinvolvedindex.html>
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"There go my people.  I must follow them, for I am their leader."  M. Gandhi

Bug or RFE launching Java or Javadoc?

[Eddie Sheffield <ed...@inline-software.com>]

Hi all,

I just started working with Ant this morning. I'm anxious to get rid of the
horrible mess of makefiles that we currently have, and Ant looks really
promising!

Anyway, I already have encountered a problem in building Ant itself. Near as
I can tell, I configured everything as described in the instructions, but
when I built it bombed on the javadoc statement. I discovered the problem
was that I didn't have %JAVA_HOME%\bin on my PATH. Since I tend to work with
a number of different JDKs, I usually don't keep any on my PATH and add them
manually when necessary. However, it seems it would be nice if there were a
way in Ant to specify which javadoc (and looking at the source, java) should
be used for that task. Or perhaps at least pick up the system property
"java.home" to run the same javadoc/java that is currently being run.

I would be glad to make an attempt at changing this myself, but that leads
to another question. How do I submit code? I have looked over the docs at
the web site, and see that only Committers have write access to the
repository. Do I send changes to a committer to review or to the original
owner/creator of the file? or something else. Maybe I missed something on
the web site, but I've gone through all the docs that I found links to. I
apologize if this is a stupid RTFM thing, but which FM ;-) ?

Thanks,

Eddie Sheffield