Thanks, Wayne,
Your approach does sound much more pragmatic. ;-)
Cheers,
David
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 23:46 -0500, Wayne Fay wrote:
> You're welcome to file a bug where ever you deem it to be appropriate.
>
> I am simply a pragmatist -- filing a bug against the plugin will
> actually result in a fix for your issue much more quickly. This is
> clearly a defect in the plugin, and so the change can be incorporated
> rather quickly.
>
> Filing a bug of this nature against the Maven project itself may (or
> may not) result in a change in the 2.1.x series which is currently in
> the planning stages. The reason you're seeing this problem is related
> to the "system scope" which you're generally advised to avoid and
> which many people believe should be deprecated.
>
> [Another quick fix would be to simply create a link (ln -s) from
> classes.jar to tools.jar in the location the plugin expects it to
> exist.]
>
> Wayne
>
> On 5/17/07, David Leangen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for this.
> >
> > You're right. The appropriate thing to do would be to remove the system
> > dependency. There should be a generalized maven project that acts as an
> > abstraction to the system's tools.jar. This project could then be
> > included as a dependency by any project that needs to use classes from
> > tools.jar.
> >
> > Given that Maven is supposed to be a generalized build tool, I don't
> > think it's reasonable (unless there's really some reason to do so) to
> > have to create build profiles just because the OS changes.
> >
> > In this respect, the bug should be filed against maven itself, and not
> > against the plugin. wdyt?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:50 -0500, Wayne Fay wrote:
> > > This issue has come up previously regarding JAX-WS. The fix at that
> > > time was to actually remove the system-scoped tools.jar dependency
> > > from the plugin pom (IIRC -- check the Archives for more details).
> > >
> > > So you will probably need to file a bug against the native2ascii
> > > plugin requesting a similar modification. Or if you're the only Mac
> > > user, just adjust the plugin pom.xml file in your local cache to
> > > remove the tools.jar dependency (this is a hack).
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > > On 5/16/07, David Leangen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > I am having some issues with mojo plugin for native2ascii in a
> > > > multi-platform setting.
> > > >
> > > > The problem is with the dependency on tools.jar, as per the text below.
> > > >
> > > > On the Mac, there is no tools.jar, and all the classes are already
> > > > included in the classpath by default. Therefore, native2ascii fails on
> > > > Mac with a message asking to install "com.sun:tools:jar:dummy".
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas how I can get this to work on ALL my machines?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > <dependencies>
> > > > <dependency>
> > > > <groupId>com.sun</groupId>
> > > > <artifactId>tools</artifactId>
> > > > <version>1.4.2</version>
> > > > <scope>system</scope>
> > > > <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
> > > > </dependency>
> > > >
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