> Believe it or not, I read the docs. Unfortunately, I found them pretty
> vague. For example, how does ant find the compiler you specify?
It uses JAVA_HOME and PATH, I believe. In fact, Ant requires JAVA_HOME
to be set before it'll do anything.
We use jikes, so we have to make sure everyone has "C:\jikes\bin" in the
PATH. I'm not sure what's happening inside Ant, but my first guess
would be that it simply attempts to execute the compiler in a manner
sutiable for the platform. For instance, "jikes" would be invoked as
"jikes.exe" on Windows but just plain "jikes" on *nix.
> What if
> the specified compiler is not available?
Well, here's what my output looks like if I rename jikes.exe to
jikesFOO.exe...
<snip>
compile.library:
[javac] Compiling 231 source files to
C:\rates_view\rps_vob\rnr\out\library\classes
BUILD FAILED
C:\rates_view\rps_vob\rnr\build.xml:381: Error running jikes compiler
</snip>
-Steve
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