Hi Damian,
This is a design issue with RJB (ruby-java bridge) which affects AntWrap.
All Java libraries used by Buildr must added to Java.classpath before
Java.load is called. (Java.load is called automatically the first call to
a Java class is made)
So you have two choices,
1) Add the following line to the top of your buildfile,
Java.classpath << FileList[ENV['ANT_HOME'] + '/lib/*']
2) Run ant as an external process,
task :external_ant
exec 'ant -f build.xml some_task'
end
Also, Buildr has some syntax sugar for creating AntProject using the ant()
method within a project,
ant('my-project') do |ant|
ant.ant(:antfile => 'build.xml', :dir => '.', :target => 'compile')
end
(API doc at http://buildr.apache.org/rdoc/classes/Buildr/Ant.html)
hope this helps,
alex
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Damian Monogue <demon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was hoping you kind folks could help me out.
>
> I'm attempting to reuse some of our old ant scripts in our current push to
> implement buildr as our new build tool. I've been trucking along ok, but
> now
> I'm having issues with it not wanting to load all of the jars in
> ANT_HOME/lib.
>
> I'm calling AntProject.new(:ant_home => "/home/dmonogue/apache-ant-1.6.5")
> as /home/dmonogue/apache-ant-1.6.5 is where I exploded the 1.6.5 .tar.bz2
> distributed on the ant.apache.org site. everything chugs along great,
> until
> I get to a replaceregexp task, whereupon it blows up with the following:
>
> build.xml:916: Problem: failed to create task or type replaceregexp
> Cause: the class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ReplaceRegExp was
> not found.
> This looks like one of Ant's optional components.
> Action: Check that the appropriate optional JAR exists in
> -ANT_HOME/lib
> -the IDE Ant configuration dialogs
>
> Do not panic, this is a common problem.
> The commonest cause is a missing JAR.
>
> This is not a bug; it is a configuration problem
>
>
> The ant-nodeps.jar file (which contains the
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ReplaceRegExp classfile) exists in
> /home/dmonogue/apache-ant-1.6.5/lib directory but is apparently not
> actually
> being loaded in any fashion which ant recognizes. I have tried also with
> ant
> 1.7.1 with the same results.
>
> It may be worth noting that I couldn't get any of the ant tasks to work
> until I added
>
> Java.load
>
> to the top of my buildfile, as it was then dying on such things as:
>
> NoClassDefFoundError : org/apache/tools/ant/DefaultLogger
>
>
> I only even tried the Java.load because I found something in the
> documentation which mentioned it for using external java libraries with
> buildr, and I figured it couldn't hurt to try it.
>
> Is there something obvious I've overlooked? This is the last major hurdle
> in
> proving we can use buildr for our build tool here, so any help at all is
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Damian
>
