Seems to me that avoiding a custom task is the way to go.

Ted

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> Hi Ted,
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> But what do we do if it's not available--i.e., how do we tell ant
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>       if( -e xjavac) use xjavac to compile stuff
>       else use javac
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> (to use a vaguely sh-ish pseudocode).  I've no doubt if can be done; just
> not sure how to model conditional execution in ant (let alone conditional
> task definition).
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> Anyway, perhaps I should repost the tools distros.  I also think Xalan
> found a solution to massaging the bootclasspath that didn't use a custom
> task; perhaps we should move in that direction in the long run.
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
> Neil Graham
> XML Parser Development
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> Hi Neil,
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> This bit me during the Hackathon as well.  I seem to recall that Ant has a
> way of detecting whether a taskdef is present.  I think it would be worth
> it
> to see if the xjavac task can be invoked only when its available.
>
> Ted
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> > Hi Troy,
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> > Commenting this out should work fine, so long as you're not compiling
> under
> > an IBM JDK1.4.x.  The root of the problem was that our tools generation
> > code was a bit broken--more seriously than this, is also removed the
> > LICENSE files for the jars included there...--and this only became
> evident
> > after 2.2.1.
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> > Cheers,
> > Neil
> > Neil Graham
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> > I just downloaded the xerces xerces-2_2_1 and built
> > them on linux and j2sdk 1.4.1.
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> > The file tools/bin/xjavac.jar is missing, and I
> > couldn't find where to get it, so I commented out
> > the relevant portions in the build.xml file.
> > This seemed to work.
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> > I was wondering if this is what was intended.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Troy
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> > Troy Korjuslommi                Tksoft Inc.
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