ant-1.6.5; need to add tools.jar to system classpath

[Vladimir Egorov <ve...@bea.com>]

Hi Ant Users,

We are working with ant-1.6.5. As a workaround for
 
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6176978

(the bug is marked fixed, but it re-appeared in jdk 1.6), we need to add
tools.jar to ant system classpath.

What is the recommended way of doing this?

Adding it to CLASSPATH did not help because ant scripts (ant and
ant.bat) create their own -classpath. We also tried adding it to
LOCALCLASSPATH, but ant.bat does not handle it the same way as ant
script does. So far we resolved to editing ant.bat (added
LOCALCLASSPATH, see below), but we hope that there is a better way.

Note that upgrading to ant-1.7 is not an option for us at this time.

Thank you,

--Vladimir

Change to $ANT_HOME/bin/ant.bat in ant-1.6.5 (added LOCALCLASSPATH).

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< "%_JAVACMD%" %ANT_OPTS% -classpath "%ANT_HOME%\lib\ant-launcher.jar"
"-Dant.home=%ANT_HOME%" org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher %ANT_ARGS%
-cp "%CLASSPATH%" %ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS%
---
> "%_JAVACMD%" %ANT_OPTS% -classpath
%ANT_HOME%\lib\ant-launcher.jar;%LOCALCLASSPATH% "-Dant.home=%ANT_HOME%"
org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher %ANT_ARGS% -cp "%CLASSPATH%"
%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS%


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