The deal is that tools.jar is in classes.jar (i think) and is always
on the classpath.  If you just exclude the dependency it should work.

On 6/11/07, Nathan Maves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What causes your project to have a dependency on tools.jar?

I have been using maven on a mac for a while now and have never had to deal
with the tools.jar.

Nathan

On 6/11/07, Jerome Thibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Discovering the joy of coding Java in a Mac environment I learned that
> there
> is no tools.jar in the Mac version of the JDK.
> Consequence is, my projects having dependencies on tools.jar fail to
> build.
>
> So for the project with a direct dependency, I used Profile successfully.
> I created one profile triggered by the OS family and everything went
> smooth.
>
> Now I got 2 problems:
>    - it seems that, when inherited through transitive dependency, the
> profile trigger is not taken into account
> and tools.jar is added to the dependencies list anyway.
>    - I got an ant plugin setup in the build section with tools.jar in the
> dependencies section of the plugin.
> What do I use to make the dependency conditional there?
>
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Jerome
>



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