That's done it. I tried it with just Java.classpath <<
"/home/dmonogue/apache-ant-1.6.5/lib" but it seems it wants the actual
files, not just the path.
Thanks, Alex. I'll keep chugging along from here.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Alex Boisvert <alex.boisv...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
> >
>
