Status: New
Owner: mikesamuel
CC: kpreid.switchb.org
Labels: Type-Defect Priority-High
New issue 1247 by kpreid.switchb.org: TransformAntTask depends on Xerces
built into Ant which is not present in Ant 1.8.1
http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/issues/detail?id=1247
To reproduce: Build Caja with Ant 1.8.1.
The CajoledTests target will fail (with a NullPointerException unless
http://codereview.appspot.com/1763041/show is applied), because the
TransformAntTask runs in the Ant JVM, whose classpath is AFAICT not
affected by anything we specify, so the existence of Xerces on the
classpath is an accident of previous versions of Ant.
Possible solutions:
* arrange to run Ant with Xerces loaded -- which does not seem to be
possible on an *automatic* per-project basis, so it would have to either
have the user change their config, or be 'tools/myant ...' or some such.
* run the transformation in a different JVM or under a different
ClassLoader with an appropriate classpath set up.
