> From: Joe Howes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2001 12:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Some solutions I've found...
>
>
> Spent the day struggling with the following ANT issues:
>
> 1. Whenever I tried to use jikes as a compiler, ant would myseriously
> cack saying, "Error messages should have been provided." ... and yet no
> error messages were provided, even in verbose mode.
>
> 2. It seemed that, even though I had the latest version of ANT, it
> completely ignored the CVS task.
>
>
> Turned out both issues were caused by my java SDK version: JAVA_HOME
> being "jdk1.2.2" instead of "jdk1.3.1" or "jdk1.3.2";
>
>
> So here's a resounding, "ANT NEEDS JDK1.3.x OR HIGHER!!!"
>
A bug in this area was fixed just yesterday. Please try the latest nightly
build.
No need to shout.
Conor
