Launcher issues

[Dominique Devienne <DD...@lgc.com>]

FWIW, I've had at least 5 users having problems with the new Ant 1.6
launcher because they had unexpanded environment variables in their
CLASSPATH. I can almost trace adoption of Ant 1.6 in this company just by
questions about the IllegalArgumentException they're all getting. I suspect
this is not the last we here of this. --DD

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Re: Launcher issues

[Antoine Lévy-Lambert <an...@antbuild.com>]

Dominique Devienne wrote:

>FWIW, I've had at least 5 users having problems with the new Ant 1.6
>launcher because they had unexpanded environment variables in their
>CLASSPATH. I can almost trace adoption of Ant 1.6 in this company just by
>questions about the IllegalArgumentException they're all getting. I suspect
>this is not the last we here of this. --DD
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Hi Dominique,

I do not understand this issue of unexpanded environment variable in 
one's CLASSPATH.
How do your colleagues set their CLASSPATH ?
Are they working under Windows or UNIX ?

For me, whatever the operating system, if your profile says :
export 
CLASSPATH=$APPLICATIONA_HOME/classes:$APPLICATIONB_HOME/classes:$APPLICATIONC_HOME/first_jar

or the equivalent under your operating system, by the time the CLASSPATH 
environment variable reaches an application it is already expanded.

I do not set CLASSPATH under Windows, but I set PATH with the system 
applet of the control panel. I set PATH to be 
%ANT_HOME%\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin ...
but when I open a shell window, the PATH is already expanded.

How do your colleagues start ant :
- do they start one of the supplied scripts (ant.bat or ant for Unix),
- or do they start ant through an IDE, or somehow through API calls
- or do they start somehow java org.apache.tools.ant ... from the 
command line ?

Antoine


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RE: Launcher issues

[Conor MacNeill <co...@thecortex.net>]

> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:DDevienne@lgc.com]
>
> FWIW, I've had at least 5 users having problems with the new Ant 1.6
> launcher because they had unexpanded environment variables in their
> CLASSPATH. I can almost trace adoption of Ant 1.6 in this company just by
> questions about the IllegalArgumentException they're all getting.
> I suspect
> this is not the last we here of this. --DD
>

Dominique,

Having unexpanded environment variables in the classpath was not something I
had considered. I'll have a look at how this could be handled. Interestingly
this should indicate to the users some other problem in their classpath
setup which they may have been unaware of :-)

Conor


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