Can't get ANT to run please help!

Thorbar

I've downloaded the latest installed binary version of apache ant 1.6.5 and I unpacked the tar into /usr/dnl/apache-ant-1.6.5.

I've set $ANT_HOME and added it to the path with the following commands in /etc/bashrc.

export ANT_HOME=/usr/dnl/apache-ant-1.6.5
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBMJava2-142
export PATH=${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin
export CLASSPATH=/usr/dnl/apache-ant-1.6.5/lib


I'm running IBM's Java 1.4.2 sdk and its compiling things fine from any directory under either root or my user a/c. Also I've seen that sdk run ant on another install of RHEL 3.

So when I try to run ant I get the following error:
The java class is not found: org/apache/tools/ant/launch/Launcher

I thought first that it wasn't seeing the .jar so I found launcher and added that dir to the classpath. But it still throws up the same error. Not sure what to try next any help would really be appricated.

cgarvey

You need to add the JAR to the classpath, not the directory it's in. I find it's much easier to set the classpath within my build.xml ...

	<path id="compile.classpath">
		<fileset dir="${catalina.home}/common/lib">
			<include name="*.jar"/>
		</fileset>
		<!-- More JARs/classpaths -->
	</path>

	<!-- Rest of build.xml -->

	<javac srcdir="${java.src.dir}"
		destdir="${java.src.dir}"
		debug="${compile.debug}"
		deprecation="${compile.deprecation}"
		optimize="${compile.optimize}">
		<classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
	</javac>