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Ant build breaks into seemingly infinite loop 

           Summary: Ant build breaks into seemingly infinite loop
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.6.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Blocker
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: dev@ant.apache.org
        ReportedBy: stehmana@cadmus.com


***IMPORTANT NOTE:*************************************************
The build in question works perfectly fine on a comparable XP box.  
The only difference between the two environments is that the 
environment in which the build works is on a Compaq EVO desktop and
the environment in which the build does not work is on a HP Compaq
nx9010 laptop.  Both are Windows XP (env var reports that 
OS = WINDOWS_NT) and both were running same versions of Java and
Ant.  This has been tried with both Ant 1.5.4 and 1.6, with no 
improvement.
*********************************************************************

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:

The parent build file utilizes several other *.xml files to build
the entire project.  It starts off by successfully building several
targets until it seems to kick into an infinite loop for some unknown
reason (there is no error reported anywhere).  It does this in
the same place every time:

------------- ant output -----------------------------------------------

build.domain:

compile.domain:
     [echo] Compiling c:\rpm_current\rpm\Domain...
    [javac] Compiling 3283 source files to C:\rpm_current\build\Server
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
<ad infinitum />

------------- /ant output ----------------------------------------------

It goes ad infinitum - or seemingly - until it seems to 'catch' on 
something and then start building again, but it seems to have lost all
references to the libraries defined in the <classpath> element, even
though classes12.zip and quartz1.2.3 are both included in the
classpath - it also reports this for all EJB and JMS stuff, anything
which requires an imported library - these two entries are ONLY an 
example, it scrolls on for quite a while:


------------- ant output -----------------------------------------------

count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
    [javac] 
C:\rpm_current\rpm\Domain\<deletedForIntellectualPropertyReasons>.java:103: 
package oracle.jdbc does not exist
    [javac] import oracle.jdbc.OraclePreparedStatement;
    [javac]                    ^
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
    [javac] 
C:\rpm_current\rpm\Domain\<deletedForIntellectualPropertyReasons>.java:4: 
package org.quartz does not exist
    [javac] import org.quartz.Job;
    [javac]                   ^
------------- /ant output ----------------------------------------------



The build finally ends with these errors:

------------- ant output -----------------------------------------------
<scrolling for 100's of entries before getting here>
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139
count = 0, total = 477
count = 0, total = 139

    [javac] Note: C:\rpm_current\rpm\<deleted for intellectual property 
reasons>.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -deprecation for details.
    [javac] 100 errors

build.xml:323: Following error occured while executing this line
build.xml:203: Following error occured while executing this line
build.xml:129: Following error occured while executing this line
build.xml:79: Following error occured while executing this line
domain.xml:98: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

------------- /ant output -----------------------------------------------


The interesting thing is to look at line 98 of domain.xml:


------------- domain.xml -----------------------------------------------

	  <target name="compile.domain">
	    <echo message="Compiling ${work.dir}\Domain..."/>
	    <!--
	    <mkdir dir="${build.dir}/Domain"/>
	    -->
	    <javac classpathref="classpath.compilation.domain"
	        srcdir="${work.dir}/Domain"
	        destdir="${build.dir}/Server"
	        debug="on"/>
LINE 98 -->     <!-- destdir="${build.dir}/Domain"/> -->
	  </target>

------------- /domain.xml ----------------------------------------------

Where work.dir and build.dir are defined in the parent build.xml.

My guess is this may be a manifestation of the infinite loop problem, similar
to losing the classpath - it is also losing the ant variables.

Why this occurs on one XP box and not the other is baffling to me.  The
source is checked out from CVS, the same repository, the same version, the
same time, and every time it works on one and not the other.  It has been 
seriously aggravating me for over a month now.  I have to go to other
developers and ask them to check out and build for me to see if my
changes don't break the build.

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