[crossfire] Compiling gridarta with ant

[Kevin R. Bulgrien]

On Saturday 04 August 2007 19:44, Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote:
> Now that I have jxclient building... gridarta still doesn't work... Will have to dig to
> find out what these indicate as far as missing dependencies...  In the mean time,
> hints/clues welcome.
> 
> $ rpm -q ant
> ant-1.6.5-21mdv2007.0
> $ cd /home/data/svn/gridarta
> $ svn switch --relocate https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gridarta https://gridarta.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gridarta
> $ svn update
>    ...
> $ cd crossfire
> $ ant --execdebug
> exec "/usr/java/latest/jre/bin/java" -classpath "/usr/share/java/ant.jar:/usr/share/java/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/share/java/jaxp_parser_impl.jar:/usr/share/java/xml-commons-apis.jar:/usr/java/latest/lib/tools.jar" -Dant.home="/usr/share/ant" -Dant.library.dir="/usr/share/ant/lib" org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher -cp ""
> Buildfile: build.xml
> 
> init:
> 
> BUILD FAILED
> /home/data/svn/gridarta/crossfire/build.xml:66: Could not create task or type of type: echoproperties.
> 
> Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon.
> 
> This is common and has a number of causes; the usual
> solutions are to read the manual pages then download and
> install needed JAR files, or fix the build file:
>  - You have misspelt 'echoproperties'.
>    Fix: check your spelling.
>  - The task needs an external JAR file to execute
>      and this is not found at the right place in the classpath.
>    Fix: check the documentation for dependencies.
>    Fix: declare the task.
>  - The task is an Ant optional task and the JAR file and/or libraries
>      implementing the functionality were not found at the time you
>      yourself built your installation of Ant from the Ant sources.
>    Fix: Look in the ANT_HOME/lib for the 'ant-' JAR corresponding to the
>      task and make sure it contains more than merely a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF.
>      If all it contains is the manifest, then rebuild Ant with the needed
>      libraries present in ${ant.home}/lib/optional/ , or alternatively,
>      download a pre-built release version from apache.org
>  - The build file was written for a later version of Ant
>    Fix: upgrade to at least the latest release version of Ant
>  - The task is not an Ant core or optional task
>      and needs to be declared using <taskdef>.
>  - You are attempting to use a task defined using
>     <presetdef> or <macrodef> but have spelt wrong or not
>    defined it at the point of use
> 
> Remember that for JAR files to be visible to Ant tasks implemented
> in ANT_HOME/lib, the files must be in the same directory or on the
> classpath
> 
> Please neither file bug reports on this problem, nor email the
> Ant mailing lists, until all of these causes have been explored,
> as this is not an Ant bug.
> 
> Total time: 0 seconds

Resolved by adding another package, though I did not know how to figure out
which "optional task" package to get, so I just kept trying different ones...
There must be a better way.

  $ urpmi ant-nodeps

  $ ant
  ...
      [javac] 25 warnings

  jar:
        [jar] Building jar: /home/data/svn/gridarta/crossfire/CrossfireEditor.jar
    [delete] Deleting directory /home/data/svn/gridarta/crossfire/class/production

  BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  $ java -jar CrossfireEditor.jar

  Bingo.