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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by William Ferguson <wi...@mincom.com> on 2000/07/06 02:17:32 UTC
RE: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
Since the distinction between the classic and modern switches for the
Javac task hasn't/can't be implemented, wouldn't it be appropriate to
remove the option in the code and doc?
William Ferguson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergus Gallagher [mailto:Fergus.Gallagher@OrbisUK.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 February 2000 22:17
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
>
>
> I'm not sure but it looks to me like com.sun.tools.javac.Main invokes
> the "modern" compiler by default. Conversely, I can't see
> how to invoke
> the "classic" compiler.
>
> Fergus
>
> James Duncan Davidson wrote:
> >
> > > Doh! I guess I should have looked at the source carefully - this
> > > compiler hasn't been implemented!
> >
> > Oops. This was a skeleton that I stubbed in to be filled in.. It was
> > before the 1.3 stuff was widely used, so I thought I had
> time.. Guess
> > not.
> >
> > It's easy enough to steal the code from the classic
> compiler section --
> > the syntax differences in the command aren't much
> different. Mainly it's
> > just a switch in the classname of the entry point
> > com.sun.tools.javac.Main I beleive.
> >
> > .duncan
> >
> > --
> > James Davidson
> duncan@eng.sun.com
> > Java + XML / Portable Code + Portable Data
> !try; do()
>
> --
> Fergus Gallagher Tel: +44 (20) 89 87 07 17
> Orbis Fax: +44 (20) 87 42 26 49
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>
RE: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
Posted by Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Ferguson [mailto:williamf@mincom.com]
>
> Conor,
>
> I well realise I was replying to something from 5 months ago - I had to
> specifically look it up in the archives :-)
>
> The reason I did so, was because our version of Ant (18th April 2000)
> wasn't implementing the modern build. And as far as I could tell from
> the archives, there didn't seem to be any follow up to the original
> posts.
Actually, it is a topic that comes up regularly :-)
>
> As you suggested I have downloaded recent (5th July) source and will use
> that (it has some olther features I want anyway).
>
> BTW All the recent binaries appear to be zero length .. ? Is this
> because of the changes to the nightly builds lately? Soory if this seems
> a stupid question, but I'm relatively new to this list.
No its not a stupid question. The old nightly build process does not
bootstrap ant but simply builds ant with an existing copy of ant itself.
Normally that is OK. If, however, a new feature is introduced into ant and
immediately used in ant's own build.xml file, the old version of ant will
not be able to build the new version. This is why the old nightly build
process is failing.
Sam Ruby has introduced a new nightly build process for ant which bootstraps
ant to avoid this problem. Ant now has its own nightly build which is good.
Conor
RE: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
Posted by William Ferguson <wi...@mincom.com>.
Conor,
I well realise I was replying to something from 5 months ago - I had to
specifically look it up in the archives :-)
The reason I did so, was because our version of Ant (18th April 2000)
wasn't implementing the modern build. And as far as I could tell from
the archives, there didn't seem to be any follow up to the original
posts.
As you suggested I have downloaded recent (5th July) source and will use
that (it has some olther features I want anyway).
BTW All the recent binaries appear to be zero length .. ? Is this
because of the changes to the nightly builds lately? Soory if this seems
a stupid question, but I'm relatively new to this list.
William Ferguson
williamf@mincom.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor MacNeill [mailto:conor@cortexebusiness.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2000 10:27
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
>
>
> William,
>
> You are replying to a mail sent about 5 months ago !!
>
> This has now been implemented. Get the latest nightly build
> or the latest
> code from CVS.
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ant/nightly/
>
> Conor
RE: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
Posted by Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>.
William,
You are replying to a mail sent about 5 months ago !!
This has now been implemented. Get the latest nightly build or the latest
code from CVS.
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ant/nightly/
Conor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Ferguson [mailto:williamf@mincom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2000 10:18
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
>
>
> Since the distinction between the classic and modern switches for the
> Javac task hasn't/can't be implemented, wouldn't it be appropriate to
> remove the option in the code and doc?
>
>
> William Ferguson
>
> This transmission is for the intended addressee only and is confidential
> information. If you have received this transmission in error, please
> delete it and notify the sender. The contents of this E-mail are the
> opinion of the writer only and are not endorsed by Mincom Limited unless
> expressly stated otherwise.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fergus Gallagher [mailto:Fergus.Gallagher@OrbisUK.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 February 2000 22:17
> > To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Problem building ant with JDK1.3 modern
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure but it looks to me like com.sun.tools.javac.Main invokes
> > the "modern" compiler by default. Conversely, I can't see
> > how to invoke
> > the "classic" compiler.
> >
> > Fergus
> >
> > James Duncan Davidson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Doh! I guess I should have looked at the source carefully - this
> > > > compiler hasn't been implemented!
> > >
> > > Oops. This was a skeleton that I stubbed in to be filled in.. It was
> > > before the 1.3 stuff was widely used, so I thought I had
> > time.. Guess
> > > not.
> > >
> > > It's easy enough to steal the code from the classic
> > compiler section --
> > > the syntax differences in the command aren't much
> > different. Mainly it's
> > > just a switch in the classname of the entry point
> > > com.sun.tools.javac.Main I beleive.
> > >
> > > .duncan
> > >
> > > --
> > > James Davidson
> > duncan@eng.sun.com
> > > Java + XML / Portable Code + Portable Data
> > !try; do()
> >
> > --
> > Fergus Gallagher Tel: +44 (20) 89 87 07 17
> > Orbis Fax: +44 (20) 87 42 26 49
> > The Swan Centre email: Fergus.Gallagher@orbisuk.com
> > Fishers Lane Web: http://www.orbisuk.com
> > London W4 1RX / UK
> >
>
>