Hi, the dependency on ant for the langtools repo, encoded into the build tools CompilePropertiesTask and GenStubs, can be separated into a separate package.
This enables build-infra makefiles to compile langtools without the ant.jar simply by avoiding the ant specific package. Ant can of course still be used to build langtools. WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohrstrom/webrev-7150579-v1/ TESTING: Builds fine using ant, even when genstubs is tricked to actually be used, which it normally is not. Feedback welcome! //Fredrik