Re: Is this a problem in the ant build.xml?

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:11:36 -0400
Message-ID:
<gsdc5q$2mp$1@news.albasani.net>
SpreadTooThin wrote:

1st) I'm on a mac. Mac OS X 10.5
2nd) I have jar files that my application requires to build.
   Those jar files are in the source code code tree in the library
directory.
build.xml
build
libraries <---
products
source

when i [sic] run ant from the shell I get an error message saying that my
import file can not be found.

    [javac] pathtomycode/source/java/org/rsna/ctp/stdstages/
sFtpExportService.java:18: package com.sshtools.j2ssh does not exist
    [javac] import com.sshtools.j2ssh.SshClient;

If however I put my jar files in a directory called:
/System/Library/Java/Extensions


Eschew the extensions directory. It's for adding JARs to make them
essentially part of the core Java language, nearly always a bad idea.

Then I am able to build without errors.

I suspect this is something to do with environment variables or my ant
build.xml file.


Not envars but the classpath.
<http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#path>

RTFM.

--
Lew

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