Hi Stefan, thanks for your answer. I have now resolved the problem: I was accidentally using kaffe 1.0.5, which was called via /etc/alternatives. After convincing my debian installation to use Blackdown jdk instead, everything worked like a charm. So I guess it's a kaffe problem. Perhaps still somebody ambitioned wants to look at it.
Matthias Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > >>>>> "MP" == Matthias Pfisterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MP> I'm using ant 1.1 (package 1.1-1 from debian woody) with xerces > MP> 1.2.0 and Blackdown jdk1.2.2-rc4 on GNU/Linux i386. > > I've been using Ant (all versions starting way before Ant 1.1) on > Linux without problems (Blackdown's, Sun's and IBM's JDKs) but have > never seen anything as scary as your exceptions. > > The main differences: I compile Ant myself and I use Sun's reference > implementation of the JAXP parser instead of xerces. > > I'd suggest you first try to use the other XML parser as the exception > is coming from somewhere deep inside xerces. Go to > <URL:http://java.sun.com/xml/download.html> grab the reference > implementation and replace xerces.jar with parser.jar and jaxp.jar in > your CLASSPATH and try again. > > If that fails, download the sources to Ant and bootstrap it > yourself. If this fails as well, come back here 8^) (feel free to come > back anyway of course). > > Stefan > > PS: My first guess has been that your buildfile would not be well > formed, but it's OK. > > What are you trying to do with the filtering attribute to <javac>? The > documentation is a little bit misleading, javac will only do filter > replacement on the "support files", not inside the sources > themselves. In Ant 1.2 even this won't work - as javac doesn't copy > anything anymore. -- Matthias Pfisterer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. (from a nepalese mantra) Java Sound Examples: http://rupert.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~pfistere/jsexamples/ Tritonus, the open source implementation of the Java Sound API: http://tritonus.sourceforge.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------
