Re: Xerces on JDK 1.5 (on Gump) (fwd)

I modified Xerces' Javac task in CVS such that it
should now detect JDK 1.4 and above. I strongly suspect that this was the
source of the problem. Hopefully that will fix the Gump failures.

Thanks.

"Adam R. B. Jack" <ajack@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 08/20/2004 06:00:32 PM:

> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Michael Glavassevich wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to guess this has in part to do with the version of
Ant that
> > Gump is using to compile Xerces.  Xerces uses its own Javac
task [1] so
> > that it compiles smoothly on JDK 1.4. This code isn't aware of
JDK 1.5
> > (yet) nor is the version of Ant which is distributed among Xerces'
build
> > tools.
> >
> > [1]
> > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-
> xerces/java/tools/src/XJavac.java?view=markup
> 
> Interesting. Just for the purposes of communication, the Ant that
> Gump run is called with build.sysclasspath=only, so really ought 
> override any 'twiddling' that a task attempts. I can't gaurantee 
> this (hence I'll CC the Gump list), but I'd bet heavily on it. In
> short, Gump pretty much overrides (with Ant's colaboration) local
> settings with it's settings. [See: http://ant.apache.
> org/manual/sysclasspath.html]
> 
> That said, there definately seems to be some classes not being 
> found, that are found when on JDK1.4 w/ exactly the same Gump. So
..
> something odd is happening...
> 
> regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
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Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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